[asterisk-users] Optimizing Asterisk Environment

[Andrew Latham]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
> Nick Khamis wrote:
>>
>> Oh no secret. Some things I do is increase the ulimit size. I was
>> wondering if there was a way to increase allocated memory. I have been
>> reading about a -p option but when I start asterisk using "asterisk -p
>> -10" it does not accept it but "asterisk -p 10" works fine. Not sure
>> if that was the intended new value.
>>
>> Also, I  just want to mention I am not trying to break any records.
>> Just would like to get a ~200 concurrent call stable environment using
>> G729 out of our setup.
>
>
> Are you transcoding? If so then that is where most of your CPU is going, and
> the only option to make it go further is to use a hardware transcoding
> solution.
>
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> Joshua Colp
> Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer
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+1 on hardware card.  There are various other tools, even a network
based encoding solution.  Offloading to hardware can show you how
stable/strong your system might already be.

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