[Asterisk-Users] The Smallest Asterisk Server Ever?
Greg Boehnlein
damin at nacs.net
Tue Feb 3 12:38:48 MST 2004
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Chris Albertson wrote:
> "Smallest" Asterisk server? No. That old Gateway box must
> be about 2 cubic feet. 1.5 ft^3 at a minimum. I've got one
> that is about 0.2 ft^3 a factor of maybe 10 smaller.
Hehehe.. As far as "Form Factor" goes, I'm sure there are smaller boxes
out there. How about "Most resource challenged Asterisk server ever? :)
> I've installed a working Asterisk server on an older Toshiba
> notebok PC. The Notebook has a 144Mhz Pentium, 80MB RAM
> and a 2GB disk. For very low volume VOIP-only in does OK
>
> Advantages of a Notebook:
> 1) Very small, no fan, no noise.
> 2) Comes with built-in battry backup
> 3) WHat else can you do with a 144Mhz PC?
> 4) Can run softphone or Asterisk console phone using
> built-in sound
>
> Disadvangates
> 1) How to connect it to the PSTN?
>
> If someone would write a zap driver for the a common PC card
> modem (do they still sell these?) then we'd have a realy nice
> FXO/VIOP gateway. Most notebook have two PC card slots
>
> I have an _even older_ Notebook can (and this is the good part)
> has a docking staion that has a PCI bus) So I'm thinking of
> putting the digium card(s) in there. The PC is a 486DX2 at
> 100Mhz with 16MB RAM. I couldn't get it to work due to the
> 16MB RAM but after reading the below maybe I'll try again.
>
>
> --- Greg Boehnlein <damin at nacs.net> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Saturday night, after a couple of shots of bourbon, I realized
> > that I had an old PC sitting in the garage that I could use as an
> > Asterisk
> > gateway if I just blew the dust off it and reloaded it with a modern
> > Linux
> > distribution. In my characteristically impulsive manner, I grabbed it
> > and
> > started cleaning it up so that I could put it in my office without my
> > wife
> > having a fit.
> > The sytem is an old Gateway system, that I used to use as an
> > X-terminal. Nothing special really, P-133, 16 megs of ram, 3 PCI
> > slots,
> > 3.2 gig hard drive. The box booted and I was greated with a RH9 login
> >
> > screen from my X-server.
> > After imaging the hard drive over to my server for backup
> > purposes, I proceeded to try installing Fedora, RH9, RH8 and finally
> > RH73
> > without any luck. The 16 megs of ram was just too small to do the
> > installation. So I grabbed a Debian 3.0 netinstall image and got the
> > box
> > online and running.
> > 8 hours later, "apt-get dist-upgrade" completed and the box was
> > running Debian 3.0 unstable. Now it was time install Asterisk. An
> > "apt-cache search asterisk" revealed that Debian unstable has pkg
> > files
> > available. Yay! That'll save me the time of bulding everything on
> > this
> > box so all I will need to do is rebuild the Zaptel modules.
> > 20 minutes later, I had my Zaptel modules built and was ready to
> > give it a whirl, so I loaded the wcfxo module and started Asterisk.
> > My
> > GrandStream registered against the server and I was able to able to
> > place
> > calls out the PSTN using the box.
> > Initially, I was prepared for this to be an excercise in futility,
> > but I have been extremely surprised by the results. I can support up
> > to 3
> > concurrent SIP sessions before I start to get degraded quality, and
> > the
> > box appears to be rock solid. I have it registered against our
> > production
> > Asterisk server at work over my Cable modem, and my staff can simply
> > dial
> > 3xxx to ring my extension at home. Voicemail works just fine and with
> > the
> > addition of the "Asterisk-sounds" pkg inbond callers now know that we
> > are
> > out "Gambling and getting drunk" when they call.
> >
> > Is this the smallest Asterisk server ever? :)
> >
> > asterisk:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > processor : 0
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family : 5
> > model : 2
> > model name : Pentium 75 - 200
> > stepping : 12
> > cpu MHz : 132.957
> > fdiv_bug : no
> > hlt_bug : no
> > f00f_bug : yes
> > coma_bug : no
> > fpu : yes
> > fpu_exception : yes
> > cpuid level : 1
> > wp : yes
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> > bogomips : 265.42
> >
> > asterisk:~# free
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 13984 13696 288 0 1372
> > 868
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 11456 2528
> > Swap: 92728 17316 75412
> >
> > asterisk:~# ps aux
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME
> > COMMAND
> > root 1 0.0 0.6 1492 84 ? S Feb02 0:00 init
> > [2]
> > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00
> > [keventd]
> > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Feb02 0:00
> > [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
> > root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:14
> > [kswapd]
> > root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00
> > [bdflush]
> > root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00
> > [kupdated]
> > root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Feb02 0:01
> > [kjournald]
> > root 292 0.0 1.1 1540 164 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > /sbin/syslogd
> > root 295 0.0 0.0 2156 4 ? S Feb02 0:01
> > /sbin/klogd
> > root 309 0.0 0.0 1520 0 ? SW Feb02 0:00
> > /usr/sbin/inetd
> > root 316 0.0 0.4 3064 56 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > /usr/sbin/sshd
> > root 325 0.0 0.9 1752 128 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > /usr/sbin/cron
> > root 329 0.0 0.4 1488 56 tty1 S Feb02 0:00
> > /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> > root 330 0.0 0.4 1488 56 tty2 S Feb02 0:00
> > /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> > root 2609 0.0 0.2 2276 40 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
> > root 2611 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:03
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2612 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2613 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2614 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2615 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2616 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2617 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:21
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2618 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:13
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2619 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2620 0.4 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 7:52
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2621 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2622 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2625 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2626 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2627 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2628 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> > root 2629 0.0 7.3 42144 1032 ? S Feb02 0:00
> > asterisk -vvvg -c
> >
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