[Asterisk-Users] Easiest (best?) linux distribution for dedicatedAsterisk box?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:49:28PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:15:03PM -0700, shadowym wrote:
> >  
> >>FreePBX or AAH(aka trixbox) requires 256MB of RAM minimum to run properly.
> >>Just sitting there doing nothing on my test system it is using 170MB.
> >>    
> >
> >How exactly do you meassure memory usage?
> >
> >E.g: on my laptop:
> >
> >$ free
> >             total       used       free     shared    buffers   cached
> >Mem:        483056     476320       6736          0    70820     169360
> >-/+ buffers/cache:     236140     246916
> >Swap:       976744       3048     973696
> >
> >Technically you could say that it only has 6.7 MB free. But actually
> >some 220MB are used for buffers and caching by the kernel (because
> >unused memory is wasted memory).
> >

> >BTW: where did you get the idea that Asterisk == FrePBX? Asterisk is not
> >known to require MySQL and Apace to run.
> My home debian linux box runs, iptables, asterisk, apache2, exim, 
> dovecot, dhcpd, proftpd and tftpd on a PPRO 200Mhz with 64MB ram for two 
> users.
> 
> Yep, it swaps a bit, (especially when running something big like emacs), 
> but it does what it needs to do and it doesn't have a high load on it.  
> The only thing I'm not running is mysql and astmanproxy. 

When an Asterisk server does too many swaps during calls, the call
quality naturally degragades.

> 
> I doubt centos requires much more memory than debian.

It is actually FreePBX, and the combination of apache (in the default
config), mysql, FOP, an AGI for each call, etc.

But yes. I find the number a bit strange.

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