[asterisk-users] Max how many users in sip.conf

[Leif Neland]

mthayeb at gmail.com wrote:
> later i figured out the following.
>
> my sip.conf was 2.2Mega Bytes size when populated with 50k users. That 
> means 2.2 x 1024 = 2.2 GB of memory. which is definitely not an option 
> with my small amazon system.  I tried with 20k users, hola.. 
> everything works fine. tried with 25k, still works, but asterisk took 
> time to load sip module. tried with 40k, asterisk couldn't start.
>
> so decided to settle with 25k userbase.
>
Perhaps you should look into realtime; storing the users in MySql 
database instead.

Leif