[Asterisk-Users] Re: Nested MySQL Commands

[Mike Fedyk]

Yes, but the AGI process doesn't die, it stays running.  If it stops for 
some reason, asterisk will start it again.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+FastAGI
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Douglas Garstang wrote:

>I don't get the whole concept of FastAGI. It's nothing special. Asterisk just opens a connection to a TCP port instead of executing a binary.
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>From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:mfedyk at mikefedyk.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:32 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Nested MySQL Commands
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>Tony Mountifield wrote:
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>>In article <645FEC31A18FE54A8721500CDD55A7B602B425B7 at mail.oneeighty.com>,
>>Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
>> 
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>>>Peter,
>>>
>>>Too slow! We're going to potentially be doing several MySQL lookups for routing even the
>>>most basic of calls, and if every one of those queries has to make a call out to an AGI
>>>script, it would become a performance problem.
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>>AGI is only slow if you're calling it repeatedly and implementing it in
>>a scripting language that needs a big interpreter.
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>>I have had great success writing AGIs in C and interfacing to MySQL
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>>from within them. They end up nice and small and fast. A single AGI
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>>invocation does all the database transactions necessary to decide
>>on the disposition of the call, and then jumps to the appropriate
>>extension and priority in the dialplan.
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>And if you like writing your AGIs in interpreted languages, there is 
>always FastAGI.
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