[Asterisk-Users] RE: Size limitations of extensions.conf

[Moises Silva]

Asterisk support the concept of "configuration engine", this means
that you can write a configuration engine to get the data from
anywhere. The default configuration engine is "text_file_engine", that
reads the configuration from text files. This engine does not have any
limit in the code, so the only limit is the performance hit of
starting or reloading. Actually some limits exists for the size of
context names, nested includes etc, but no for number of lines.

Why dont use database engine? instead of large files?

Regards




On 6/5/06, Brent Torrenga <lists at torrenga.com> wrote:
> If you need to do a couple differing operations on a list of many
> area/country codes, then you may consider using the database to let the dial
> plan choose what to do, rather than go through so many extensions.
>
> I mention this to keep your extensions.conf easier to read, not because I
> know whether or not a long extensions.conf will break things...
>
> > Can someone tell me the size (or any other) limitations for the
> extensions.conf?
> >
> > We have managed to keep our file pretty small thanks to AGI but we are
> > about to setup a bunch of call restrictions based on area and country
> > code.
> >
> > One line per area code in the US alone adds a LOT of text to this file.
> >
> > Is it a bad thing to have 5 or 6000 lines of text in your
> > extensions.conf on a production system?
> >
> > Will it affect the performance?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brent A. Torrenga
>
> Torrenga Engineering, Inc.
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>
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