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

[joachim]

For the brave, you can test it out yourself (if you can get the beta to
work without documentation) with the callgenerator on
http://www.astertest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4
Its far from finished, but it can be used.

zoa.


Steven Critchfield wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:51 +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
>
>>>>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....
>>
>>
>
>Asterisk doesn't use very much RAM itself, but any swapping could
>destroy call quality. My 2 main asterisk machines that are in production
>only have 256 megs and perform just fine. All newer machines are getting
>512meg or more but it is mainly because of the cost is negligible to do
>the upgrade now.
>
>

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