[Asterisk-Users] Largest working config files?

[Steve Davies]

On 10/24/05, Kevin Walsh <kevin at cursor.biz> wrote:
> Steve Davies [davies147 at gmail.com] wrote:
> > I hope this is not a FAQ - I have not been able to find it if it is
> > covered already...
> >
> > I have a dial-plan on my asterisk system that is becoming potentially
> > quite large and complex - Of the order of 12 lines of dialplan per
> > extension number. Most of this is in order to record suitable CDR
> > data, access voicemail, and play "polite" goodbye messages etc. The
> > operation of each extension can potentially be unique, making a common
> > [extensions-generic] almost impossible to write.
> >
[snip]
> >
> > Does anybody have experience of how big an extensions.conf can get
> > before problems start occuring? If anyone has experienced problems, what
> > sort of things happen?
> >
> I have no idea.  Here's our dialplan line count (quite small because of
> the macros):
>
>      218 extensions/incoming.conf
>      354 extensions/internal.conf
>      225 extensions/macros.conf
>      471 extensions/outgoing.conf
>      151 extensions/routes.conf
>     1419 total
>

Thanks for the figures.

I will almost certainly use Macros to simplify how things work at
present, but will probably only save myself 20-30% due to the number
of varieties of behaviour possible.

Still, 30% is worth having :)

Regards,
Steve