[Asterisk-Dev] Benchmark numbers....

[Michael Giagnocavo]

>In my testing of CVS-HEAD I can get 5551+ sip "sessions" without  
>media on asterisk without a problem.  The load average is around 2-3.
>
>On a side note... on my 3ghz P4 HT box I can get 629 ulaw sip calls  
>with media (verified) without a problem.  The load average on the box  
>was around 14 and it still sounded perfect... so if you had a dual  
>3.4 ghz Xeon box you should have ZERO problems doing a DS3 with  
>asterisk. (That is if the interrupt is 1000 per second and not 28000  
>and its all ulaw)
>
>I'll be doing more testing later this week.

But the real scalability wall I've seen is number of registered peers...
That's what takes down a box (at least with IAX). I've heard reports of a
Dual Xeon 3.2GHz not being able to handle even 1000 IAX peers. 

-Michael