[Asterisk-Users] Thousands of contexts?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:46, Chris Bond wrote:
> Why not use mysql as it should be faster I'd suspect

I doubt it would be faster as asterisk will keep it all in memory, only
changes might be slowed.

But the thought is correct, use a database to store the data and one
context that does a lookup into the database and populates your
callerid. It is a better way of doing things. You could even host it in
the ast_db and then it shouldn't be too slow as you aren't spawning any
outside apps.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Wenger [mailto:manuel.wenger at ticinocom.com] 
> Sent: 18 June 2004 5:43 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Thousands of contexts?
> 
> By reading the Wiki's I found out that an Asterisk server with many (>10000)
> extensions and/or SIP users can become slow when reloading. But what happens
> when you also have many contexts in extensions.conf? More precisely, one
> context for each SIP user?
> 
> I need this because I will have users with random usernames that they can
> choose, but I obviously cannot set that username as the outgoing caller ID
> when passing the call to our PSTN gateway. I need to change the CLI before
> dialling out. Now, every SIP user has his CLI, so I thought of creating a
> context for every user, where I would SetCallerID() before issuing the
> Dial() command. Obviously I would use some sort of script reading from a
> database to re-create the extensions.conf and sip.conf after making changes.
> 
> Do you see any issues which could arise? Is Asterisk going to crash, or is
> it just going to be slow when reloading?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> -Manuel
> 
> 
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