[asterisk-users] Dual Atom mobo - call capacity

[Stephen Brown Jr]

Ditto.... I'm running a Supermicro Atom based dual core server and it's rock
solid!!!

These make excellent servers for Asterisk installation IMHO.....


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 05:42, --[ UxBoD ]-- <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for a small formfactor mobo for an install that needs to
> > > handle 25 phone sets (no transcoding). I found a new dual atom
> > > 1.66GHz
> > > mobo - anyone know what kinds of call volume that will handle?
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, mgraves at mstvp.com wrote:
> >
> > > Based on comments from Ward Mundy during a recent VUC call I'd
> > > expect
> > > even a single CPU Atom system to handle that many phones in an
> > > office
> > > application. Perhaps there may be merit in dual CPU in more of a
> > > call
> > > center application.
> >
> > Assuming you're talking about something like the Atom 330...
> >
> > My guess is you will have plenty of horsepower for 25 phone sets --
> > probably even 25 simultaneous calls.
> >
> > The 330 is dual-core and hyper-threaded so it shows up as 4 CPUs in
> > "top."
> >
> > Asterisk is multi-threaded and should distribute the workload. Another
> > advantage is that if you have something CPU heavy like bzip2'ing your
> > database dump or compiling Asterisk from source, there are still
> > several
> > "CPUs" available for Asterisk.
> >
>
> I have a single rack server with a Atom 330 and 2GB RAM, six phones
> connected and probably a couple of simultaneous calls at one time.  This is
> how it looks at the moment:
>
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       2049856    1346480     703376          0     181920     990376
> -/+ buffers/cache:     174184    1875672
> Swap:      4095992          0    4095992
>
> top - 10:41:59 up 12 days, 16:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
> Tasks: 122 total,   1 running, 121 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.4%id,  0.0%wa,  1.5%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  0.1%us,  0.0%sy,  0.1%ni, 99.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  0.1%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>  0.0%st
> Mem:   2049856k total,  1346232k used,   703624k free,   181920k buffers
> Swap:  4095992k total,        0k used,  4095992k free,   990376k cached
>
> Have a TDM card in the server and also use G729 codec and Skype for
> Asterisk.
> --
> Thanks, Phil
>
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