[asterisk-users] Please advise: Asterisk on Dell PowerEdge 1750 w/ hyperthreading

[bu at westnet.com.au]

Hi Gordon,

Any reason you mention Debian? Is it just preference? Or...?

I'm a Debian person, myself. We have * 1.2 on a PowerEdge 2950 with 
CentOS (which I dislike). We got it commercially done and it's under 
warranty, although I don't think they'd mind if we muck around with the 
OS - they'd probably just charge if they have to do some servicing. I'd 
make sure I have system image backups.

If I had my way / spare time / etc I'd put Debian... but for the risk of 
wrecking a perfectly working, production system.

bu



Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
>
>> Anyone else with any suggestions?
>
> Hard to work out what to suggest - what's your expected load going to 
> be? Any telco cards? etc.
>
> If you want support from Dell, then it's RHEL whatever...
>
> Personally, if I had that hardware, I'd load up Debian Etch, compile 
> up a custom kernel for it, compile up the latest asterisk (rather than 
> use the Debian package), and just get on with it.
>
> Hyperthreading shouldn't be an issue with a relatively recent kernel 
> (it doesn't appear to be for me, but my load is relatively light on 
> the HT processor I'm using - 2-300 calls a day at most right now) and 
> if you don't like HT, you can always turn it off.
>
> Gordon
>
>>
>> On 5/28/07, Kapil Dhawan <kdhawan1 at direct-internet.co.in> wrote:
>>>
>>> Redhat Enterprise
>>>
>>> Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
>>> > I've to setup Asterisk on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server. Its dual Xeon
>>> > 3GHz with Hyperthreading. People on this list who have experience 
>>> with
>>> > this server please advise me how is the performance of Asterisk on
>>> > this server, what flavour of linux is good on it etc. Is
>>> > Hyperthreading going to be a problem or not. I once read somewhere
>>> > that hyperthreading caused some voice quality problems in 
>>> Asterisk. Is
>>> > it fixed in or not yet? Any other suggestions will also be helpful.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Zeeshan A Zakaria
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