[asterisk-users] Some advice

[Kyle Sexton]

"William McCloskey" <williamm at timbercon.com> writes:

> I need a quick bit of advice from the list.
>
> We purchased an asterisk based phone system back about 6 months ago and
> we are using Cisco 7940G phones (I know, not everyone's favorites). We
> are using the second line on the phones for paging with a auto-answer,
> now my question is having the system call 20 of these paging extensions,
> should that be enough load to cause instability in the system? Our
> vendor is claiming it is causing the problems we are having, and I
> really find that hard to believe.
>
> Thoughts? Should that be enough to cause major stability problems?
>
> It's an Athlon 3800+ with 512mb ram and a Sangoma card with one PRI.
> Total of about 60 extensions (40 phones) on the system but only about
> 2-4 active calls at any given time with very little transcoding or other
> such intensive processes going on.
>
> Thanks,
> William
>

You said that you only have around 2-4 active calls at any one time, but
when the system is paging out what does your call count look like?  If
you are doing a simultaneous call to 20 different people that would
shoot the load up on your server.  I would do some testing to figure out
if the instability occurs after the page goes out.  Also, make sure that
the pages are being disconnected (so you don't have lingering channels
being used) and that you aren't doing *any* transcoding on the page out.

'show channels'
'uptime'

:)

-- 
Kyle Sexton