[asterisk-users] Asterisk -rx, how expensive is it? Should you avoid "spamming" it?

[Mikael Fredin]

I will look into netcat as well, thank you


On 24 April 2014 19:47, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:20:37PM +0200, Mikael Fredin wrote:
> > Just like the subject sais - how expensive is it to execute a lot of
> these
> > commands to keep track of different things in asterisk?
> >
> > I have avoided doing this because it feels a bit like a risk to spam the
> > asterisk CLI this way, but is it really?
> >
> > CPU-wise it doesn't seem very expensive to do it 100 times a second
> (from a
> > simple test I did), but is it possible it will affect the asterisk
> service
> > in any other negative way?
>
> It "feels" very expensive. Part of it is because of starting a new
> instance of Asterisk. It will not load any module and such, but if you
> care about speed, you can use netcat (it takes some care).
>
> You'll also encounter some artificial delays in the response which make
> it feel more expensive.
>
> The main reason to avoid it is because its output is not intended for
> automated parsing.
>
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