[asterisk-users] Is there real benefits on a SMP machine for Asterisk?

[Erik Anderson]

On 10/11/07, Raúl Gómez C. <raulgomez at cantv.net> wrote:
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> At this point I was wondering if Asterisk gets real benefits on systems with
> several cores (up to 8 in Dell PE2950) for a system that will handle up to
> 35 simultaneous SIP call with 10 FXO ports and 2 FXS for analog phones/fax
> (Sangoma A400D PCI card).

For this load level (even with high-load transcoding), a multi-core
machine certainly would not be needed.  That said, it certainly
wouldn't hurt anything to add on extra cores, especially if they're
free ;-)

-erik