[asterisk-users] asterisk 1.4 with around 230 SIP connections

[Russell Bryant]

BJ Weschke wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>>
>> Using asterisk 1.4 with 100M or 1000M ethernet and 230 SIP clients and a 
>> 64 bit 4200+ box
>> would there be any noticable lag or delay to bring each one of them into
>> a PAGE mode. so one speaker can talk out on all 230 SIP clients for a 
>> message.
>>   
>  I would have some serious reservations throwing this many clients into 
> an app_meetme room which is the foundation layer for the page 
> functionality.
> 

Well, it may be ok, especially given that the 230 clients are all marked as
listen only.  There isn't any mixing going on at all.

However, there is almost certainly going to be some lag that you may not be
happy with.  What happens is that you are spawning 230 threads to make outbound
calls and connect them to MeetMe, all at the same time.  This process is far
from instantaneous.  :)

I would also be concerned about the effects that this spike in extra processing
would have on the quality of any existing calls on the system.

But, as with most things, the only way to know for sure is to do some testing.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.