[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk / SMP / Scalability

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

<quote who="Darren Sessions">
> I've got Asterisk loading 100,000+ extensions in extensions.conf. This
> process is taking a little upwards of 10 minutes to complete on each of my
> dual 3.2Ghz HP DL380 with SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 boxes.
>
> Although asterisk creates child processes, it appears that it is only using
> a single processor to parse extensions.conf. I've turned off Hyper Threading
> on the servers which has increased the extensions.conf parsing speed, but
> not by more than a couple minutes.
>
> Is this a bug, or simply the way Asterisk works during startup? If it is the
> way Asterisk works during startup, would it be safe to say that once started
> - that the child processes would function?

This behaviour is just for parsing "*.conf" files.

You may want to put the extensions into a database and use an AGI script to
perform extension routing.  (Though, I think it would bypass CDR.)

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