[Asterisk-Users] Servers

[Steve Maroney]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> On Sunday 29 August 2004 15:20, Steve Maroney wrote:
> > Im interested in hearing about servers (and thier hardware specs) that
> > successfully run both asterisk and samba for an office of maybe about
> > 12 extensions (SIP) and about 12 workstations. Im hopeing to not only
> > replace a traditional PBXs with Asterisk/Linux but to provide a solution
> > to needs such as a file serving, email serving, etc.
>
> Typically speaking you do *not* want to do that.  Asterisk is a
> latency-sensitive application and serving files, web pages, etc. is just
> asking for trouble.  Certainly it can be done but you're asking for weird and
> inconsistent little problems.
>
> It has nothing to do with the processor load; it has everything to do with I/O
> and interrupt latency.
>
> -A.

Niceley said. Thank you for the advice.

Steve Maroney