[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on 64bit ?

[Nicholas Bachmann]

WipeOut wrote:

> Hans-Henrik Andresen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm about to set up a asterisk for 5000 users, and the customer had a 
>> 64bit
>
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>> The system is suposed to scale to 15000 users.
>
> I seriously doubt 1 server will handle that type of load (unless you 
> throw about 15 processors in it)..
>
> My advice would be to setup 1 server per 1000 users (working on appox 
> 10 to 1 ratio of active calls) then setup IAX trunks between the 
> servers and the PSTN gateways..

Better yet, how about a nice load balancer?  If you put your SIP 
registrations in a database that all the servers can share, you'll have 
no problems when a server goes down.

> This way if a server fails then you only have 1000 users down and not 
> the whole company..

This way is a server fails you've only lost the calls that are going 
through it and nothing else.

Nick