[Asterisk-Users] How "expensive"are thedifferent codecs? (Regarding CPU time)

[Michael Vogel]

Jim Van Meggelen schrieb:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>>Michael Vogel

>>Is it a little bit too much for such a machine? What could be the 
>>bottleneck? CPU? Memory? Interrupts?
> 
> YES!
> 
> And by that I mean "all of the above".

;-)

> Asterisk will run, but the sound quality is almost certainly going to be
> awful (like a poorly-tuned radio station).

By now I only have got sometimes crippled sound. Phonecalls from 
FXO-device to FXS-device are working perfect. They don't seem to have 
echos by now.

> Go ahead and try it if you're
> just playing around, but if you put it into production, don't bother
> asking anyone what's wrong when your quality sucks, 'cause you already
> know the answer.

Okay.

> If you have serious plans for Asterisk, you'll probably want to look at
> giving it a dedicated server.

My "serious" plans are only playing around with it and using it only for 
my own.

> Cheers, and best of luck (Asterisk has ben run on less than what you
> have, so don't be discouraged, just be aware of what you're getting
> into).

Okay. At first I will try to fetch more memory. I hope I can organize 
some at work (from old machines).

Bye!

Michael