<DIV>Thank you very much. Will go ahead and build the system. Hope everything goes smoothly.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>richard<BR><BR><B><I>BJ Weschke <bweschke@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 2/22/06, Richard OSS <OSS_RICHARD@ROGERS.COM>wrote:<BR>> Hello,<BR>><BR>> We are building a conference server using a Dell PE 2850 3GHz with 2G<BR>> memory.<BR>><BR>> This conference server will be used to hold a large conference with 30-50<BR>> simultaneous users in a conference room. This large conference will take<BR>> place two days per week for 3 hours each day. When a large conference is<BR>> going on, no other conference room will be created.<BR>><BR>> The rest of the week, several small conferences will take place (5-10<BR>> simultaneous users) using 5-10 conference rooms.<BR>><BR>> Is the Dell PE 2850 3GHz with 2G memory up to the
task? If not, will adding<BR>> another processor solve it?<BR>><BR>> These entries from the dimensioning portion of the Wiki gives me hope that<BR>> id does<BR>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+dimensioning<BR>><BR>> Capacity of MeetMe: With 28 persons on a Pentium II, 300MHz, 128 MB vmstat<BR>> shows 70% idle.<BR>> "I have anywhere from 15, to a peak max of 30 traders all using the same<BR>> meetme conf during the day. My * is running on a old 4U 500Mhz machine (dual<BR>> board, one processor installed now). With the exception of of a few problems<BR>> from software sip phones, our implementation has been relatively problem<BR>> free.<BR>><BR>> I just want to get more opinions from others especially those who have built<BR>> conferencing servers recently.<BR>><BR><BR>Speaking from experience, I'd expect that this setup is more than<BR>adequate. You may want to disable hyperthreading though on the procs<BR>if you can.
There really isn't an advantage to having it enabled as<BR>the "additional CPU" has no FPU.<BR><BR>--<BR>Bird's The Word Technologies, Inc.<BR>http://www.btwtech.com/<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --<BR><BR>Asterisk-Users mailing list<BR>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV>