[Asterisk-Users] Meetme max users

[Matt Florell]

On 6/24/06, Patrick <asterisk-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:58 -0400, Matt Florell wrote:
> > P4 3.2GHz
> > HT enabled
> > 1MB L3 cache
> > 2GB RAM
> > Asterisk 1.2
> >
> > meetme participants were Zap or IAX, some rooms recording
>
> Matt,
>
> A bit off-topic but I noticed you have HT enabled. Since you may be
> doing transcoding on the MeetMe box, which afaik involves the FPU,
> shouldn't you turn off HT? HT's virtual CPU does not have it's own FPU
> and will compete with the real CPU for FPU time. I was always under the
> impression that HT had to be turned off for these kind of applications.
> Alternatively you could perhaps bind asterisk & your cards to the real
> CPU and let the HT CPU take care of the rest (not sure of that's
> possible with HT). For more info have a look in the IRQ-affinity.txt
> doc.

We have run with and without HT enabled and noticed a slight
improvement in performance with it on. We have not had any issues with
meetme quality with HT on as opposed to with HT off.

MATT---