[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk's MultiProcessor Ability

[Matthew Boehm]

We have asterisk running on a quad processor dell. The kernel has been
compiled with SMP.

However, asterisk seems to only use 1 processor. 3 of the 4 always stay at
100% idle.

Is it pointless to have a multi-proc machine? I was going to buy a new dual
3.6Ghz Xeon server but if nothing will take advantage of the other proc...

Perhaps my conception of multi-proc/threaded is warped. If asterisk is the
only thing using CPU, I would expect the load to be dristributed amounst the
processors. Instead of 1 proc falling to 20% idle (80% using on that 1
proc), I should see all 4 procs fall to 80% idle (20% used on each). Is this
wrong?

What about the g729 library from digium? Is that multi-proc aware?

-Matthew

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