[Asterisk-Users] asterisk with big number of extentions.

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 17:40, Chris Albertson wrote:
> Aside from the search time, which appearently grows linearly
> with the number of extensions, you have to worry about
> volitility in the list of 25K extensions.  Lets say that
> every two years on average one of your uses changes.  I think
> that means you will needs to make three changes a day.
> So you will be editing extension.conf and doing a reload
> a few times a day, every day. With 25,000 users will there
> _ever_ be a time when no one is using the system so you can do
> a reload?
>
> You will need some why to modify the dail plan without taking
> the system off-line.or you will greatly upset a lot of users.

What are you talking about?  You can already reload the dialplan
without affecting existing calls.

> And while you are in there, it should not be hard to improve the
> search time better than O(M=N) at least for non-wildcarded extensions
> A simple binary search will
> get you to order of log2(n) which is a big deal with N > 25K

You could use the coding skills you've been bragging about since you
came on this list to contribute that code.  How about it?

-Tilghman