[asterisk-dev] How to get to 10.000 open calls

[Mark Michelson]

Venefax wrote:
>
> I am using 1.6.2 and directrtp=yes. I need to scale to 10.000 open 
> calls on a box with 1288 GB or RAM and 16 Cores. Is there any 
> modification to the source code that would be obvious, any 
> bottlenecks? I will never to transcoding and the media should, 
> theoretically, flow outside. I have 15 IP addresses already configured 
> in the same box, on two different nics, to spread the interrupts. Is 
> this a dream or will this work with some tweaking?
>
>  
>
> F. Alves
>
If you can manage to do this, I think John Todd would owe you a steak 
dinner:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-February/036736.html
http://blogs.digium.com/2009/02/18/s-prize/

Okay, so actually that offer was for 10,000 call legs with media flowing 
through Asterisk, but the idea here is still that you are pushing beyond 
the limits of what can be reasonably expected on an Asterisk 
installation. I agree with Alex here. Dream.

Also, did I mention that this really isn't a question suitable for the 
-dev list? You'd probably get some great responses on the -users list, 
including some anecdotes regarding attempts to set up large amounts of 
simultaneous calls and tweaks that allow for higher call volume (though 
probably nowhere near 10000 simultaneous calls).

Mark Michelson