asterisk users - Apr 2003 - will this machine handle it

Hi folks,

Right now I'm running * along with a lot of other apps on my firewall box, 
which is a P-II 400 with 192MB of RAM. I have a single T100P card connected 
to a channel bank that's using one FXO and two FXS ports.

I want to move * off to another computer (mostly because I think the other 
apps on the current box are causing enough of a load to affect the sound 
quality a bit). I'm looking for a computer to put it on, and I've found 
someone with a P-II 350 with 64MB of RAM (I could steal another 64MB from 
the firewall if I have to).

So, I need an opinion from some more experienced users. Given the same 
number of ports and assuming I don't run any other apps on the box, is that 
P-II 350 beefy enough to handle my * setup comfortably?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff..

What you are asking is a little bit of a grey area because there are a number of
factors that will affect how well you system will perform.. things like the
average number of concurrent calls?, are you using VoIP?, what codecs are you
using for the SIP of IAX channels? and no doubt a few others..

But here is my experience.. I am using a PII-400 and with 2 concurrent VoIP
calls using G.711 codec the processor barely registers anything.. So I should
thing that this system should handle 10-15 concurrent calls... If I used the GSM
codec for example I an sure this number would drop significantly..

Hope that helps..
> Hi folks,
> 
> Right now I'm running * along with a lot of other apps on my firewall
box,
> which is a P-II 400 with 192MB of RAM. I have a single T100P card connected
> to a channel bank that's using one FXO and two FXS ports.
> 
> I want to move * off to another computer (mostly because I think the other 
> apps on the current box are causing enough of a load to affect the sound 
> quality a bit). I'm looking for a computer to put it on, and I've
found
> someone with a P-II 350 with 64MB of RAM (I could steal another 64MB from 
> the firewall if I have to).
> 
> So, I need an opinion from some more experienced users. Given the same 
> number of ports and assuming I don't run any other apps on the box, is
that
> P-II 350 beefy enough to handle my * setup comfortably?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
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I am running that same level of box ( with more RAM ) as my test box and it
worked nearly acceptably
with the T100P but has severe sound quality issues with the T400P running more
than 2 calls into VM
or playing announcements.

It will be marginal, try and find a faster box, even a P-II 450 would be much
better.

Bill

Jeff McClure wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Right now I'm running * along with a lot of other apps on my firewall 
> box, which is a P-II 400 with 192MB of RAM. I have a single T100P card 
> connected to a channel bank that's using one FXO and two FXS ports.
> 
> I want to move * off to another computer (mostly because I think the 
> other apps on the current box are causing enough of a load to affect the 
> sound quality a bit). I'm looking for a computer to put it on, and
I've
> found someone with a P-II 350 with 64MB of RAM (I could steal another 
> 64MB from the firewall if I have to).
> 
> So, I need an opinion from some more experienced users. Given the same 
> number of ports and assuming I don't run any other apps on the box, is 
> that P-II 350 beefy enough to handle my * setup comfortably?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
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> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com
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