[asterisk-users] Asterisk Openfire Asterisk-IM Plugin Performance Observation

[Julian Lyndon-Smith]

See below:

Erik Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:47 PM, JR Richardson
> <jmr.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So now the PBX is over 1.2 Gig for the installation.  Typical PBX
>> installs are under 600 Meg.  This makes me wonder about server
>> stability, reliability and performance as uptime creeps on and user
>> count increases over 50 to 100+.
> 
> Increased data on the hard drive won't really have an affect on
> reliability or performance.
> 
>> Can anyone give me feedback on real world experience with this type of
>> setup and any performance issues that my arise?
> 
> I can't speak directly to the asterisk + openfire situation. I can,
> however, say that I've been running openfire for nearly a year now on
> a very highly-loaded server (other than openfire, it's running nagios
> and cacti, monitoring about 300 devices around our network) - the load
> average on this 5-year single processor old dell server is pegged near
> 1.00 24x7. I haven't had a single problem with openfire, and I have
> between 50 and 100 open sessions at any one time. In the year that
> I've been running openfire, I've only had to restart it once, and that
> was to upgrade the software. It takes very little CPU, and a modest
> amount of RAM.
> 
>> Is it better for production to run Openfire on a separate server than the PBX?
> 
> What's your definition of "better". Is it better to not have all your
> eggs in one basket? Is it better to only need to purchase one server?
> Is it better to only have one server to manage/update/etc versus two?
> 
>> My biggest concern is deploying a 100+ user environment with high call
>> volume and high chat volume.  Java seems to be a bit resource hungry
>> with the user notifications and call pop ups.  I would hate to have
>> the IM server walking over Asterisk and affecting call quality or PBX
>> stability.
> 
> Speaking personally, I'd have no problems putting openfire and
> asterisk on the same box. If needed, you could even just "nice" the

We run with the openfire process on the same box as the * server - we 
have not had a single problem with openfire in over 2 years now.

> openfire process down to a lower priority than asterisk - it's not as
> latency-sensitive as asterisk is. I'd doubt you'll need to do that,
> though.
> 
> -Erik
> 
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