[Asterisk-Users] Enhancing performance and utility of an Asterisk machine

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>> 6b- More than 50 calls VoIP to POTS/T1/E1 will kill an * box due to
>> excesive transcoding??????
>> 6bb- unless using quad machines, plenty of RAM and DSP cards?????
>
> The max number of calls is something that's not really a hard-and-fast 
> number. There's been numerous discussions regarding *'s "upper limit" 
> of connections, check the previous postings to this list for more 
> info.
>
> Again, it depends on a lot of different variables, like what the * box 
> is doing, how many AGIs it's running, whether or not you're doing 
> extensive DB stuff.
>
> Generally speaking, you won't go wrong with a box that's beefy in 
> terms of RAM.

Exactly what is it that is RAM demanding in Asterisk? A database server 
should be separate box anyway....

roy