[asterisk-users] Dual Atom mobo - call capacity

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Michelle Dupuis wrote:

> I'm looking for a small formfactor mobo for an install that needs to 
> handle 25 phone sets (no transcoding).  I found a new dual atom 1.66GHz 
> mobo - anyone know what kinds of call volume that will handle?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, mgraves at mstvp.com wrote:

> Based on comments from Ward Mundy during a recent VUC call I'd expect 
> even a single CPU Atom system to handle that many phones in an office 
> application. Perhaps there may be merit in dual CPU in more of a call 
> center application.

Assuming you're talking about something like the Atom 330...

My guess is you will have plenty of horsepower for 25 phone sets -- 
probably even 25 simultaneous calls.

The 330 is dual-core and hyper-threaded so it shows up as 4 CPUs in "top."

Asterisk is multi-threaded and should distribute the workload. Another 
advantage is that if you have something CPU heavy like bzip2'ing your 
database dump or compiling Asterisk from source, there are still several 
"CPUs" available for Asterisk.

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Thanks in advance,
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