[Asterisk-Users] FYI: Simple Small Asterisk install..

[Dorian Gray]

Sri wrote:
> Anyone tried to run Asterisk on Gentoo Linux ?  If yes,
> Howz the performance ?

been working fine for about 4 weeks now under 2.4.23_pre8-gss. 
performance is nominal, I don't feel that the "optimization" part of 
gentoo is a real benefit (but that's not why I use gentoo, anyway).

> Any special configuration gotcha's that we have to look out for ?

the portage tree only has asterisk-0.2 in it, you might want to try out 
either of these ebuild sets:

(0.5 asterisk snapshot version + 0.8 zaptel snapshot version)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30873
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30531

--OR--

(latest-cvs version)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33345

> What was the size of the final installation ?

of gentoo? maybe 4gb; but I am using this server for a number of other 
things as well: iptables, apache, mysql, php, etc. (it even has xfree 
installed, although I'd like to get rid of that...)

> Is it bulkier than Trustix ?

it's possible to make gentoo pretty small, but it will probably take 
more effort to do so. you could probably try doing a stage-1 install and 
leave out absolutely anything unnecessary... (e.g. build with USE="-*" 
at first, and then slowly add just the pieces you need)

it's actually possible to install the portage system onto another 
distro, but the required python libs are pretty big by default (80-90mb, 
I think).