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

[Douglas Garstang]

If by database you are referring to an external database, such as MySQL, you have to address failover, redundancy and performance issues if you go in that direction.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moises Silva [mailto:moises.silva at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:24 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Size limitations of extensions.conf
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 907 Ridge Road
> > Munster, Indiana 46321-1771
> >
> > tel:+1 219 836 8918 x325
> > fax:+1 219 836 1138
> > email:brent.torrenga at torrenga.com
> > web:www.torrenga.com
> >
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