[Asterisk-Users] mpg123 or asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

Matt Roth wrote:
> Steve Totaro wrote:
>
>> Please let us know your results.  I cannot really test this in 
>> production system since it is a $16,000/hr call center.  I was using 
>> madplay but it was crashing and creating zombie processes, I figured 
>> native was not the way to go since all of the different audio 
>> streams.  Mpg123 works perfectly for me under a load of sixty 
>> channels, I can confirm that for sure.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> mpg123 has the same problem with zombie processes as you were 
> experiencing with MadPlay.  For a scalable system, native MOH is the 
> way to go.  As per Kevin Fleming, it only introduces a slight memory 
> overhead.  mpg123 consumes CPU cycles to decompress the mp3s and in my 
> experience, a large scale Asterisk system is much hungrier for CPU 
> cycles than memory.
>
> The different audio streams used by native MOH are not really a 
> problem for the following reasons:
>
> 1) The native MOH files are likely to be cached, so they are probably 
> being read from memory.
> 2) The native MOH files do not require decompression or transcoding.
> 3) The MOH is handled in the same thread as the call itself, so there 
> is very little CPU overhead.
>
> As always, I believe that the information I'm sharing is accurate but 
> welcome any corrections or additions.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
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>
Thanks for your clarification, I will try native but most likely wind up 
streaming MOH from another box.

Thanks,
Steve