[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on 64bit ?

[Rich Adamson]

Using an external load balancer from Cisco, Foundry or others.
Not sure how well that would work unless the box understands the
sip protocol, however. Suspicion says it would be a nightmare,
but really have never tried it.

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> How do you balance the number of active connections per server?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rich
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Bachmann
> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:41 AM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on 64bit ?
> > 
> > WipeOut wrote:
> > 
> > > Hans-Henrik Andresen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm about to set up a asterisk for 5000 users, and the customer had a
> > >> 64bit
> > >
> > [...]
> > 
> > >> 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
> > 
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