I have been reading asterisks and everything I can get my hands on for the past week. I want to know what class processor is the bare minimum I need for a four port Asterisk installation? Thanks
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:47, Trench Shoring wrote:> I have been reading asterisks and everything I can get my hands on for the > past week. I want to know what class processor is the bare minimum I need > for a four port Asterisk installation?This type of question comes up quite often. I don't know whether it is the frequency that annoys me or the seemingly implied "I don't want to use a modern machine, will this POS that I was about to throw in the dump going to make this work". Basically the answer as usual is, it depends on what you want to do. We run production machines on P3 and Celeron(coppermine) machines. Just remember that once you deploy, it is harder to add CPU power in a non disruptive way. Of course if you are a bit over on the CPU power, you eventually will grow into it. So stepping away from the "bare minimum" part, you should shoot for something in the P3 range, and decent memory. It is much easier to debug any problems you have when you don't have to wonder if it is the hardware or not. Also a decent P3 machine shouldn't be too difficult to come by for little cost. The machine I had at home was a 1400 Duron that cost $106 for the CPU and motherboard. On this Duron I was running a T100P card. So again, it doesn't have to be an expensive machine, but please save your self time and aggravation and get a somewhat modern machine. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
I've set up a test enviroment and beed trying to answer that question. I think if you are carfull NOT to do dumb things like running X11 and a browser and so on on the server you can use a pretty low power system. Just do not plug in a CRT, mouse or keyboard. Use telnet or ssh. The requirements to run a graphic interfaceare are greater then to run a low-end asterisk server. Asterisk seemed to run well on am old 400Mhz Pentium but I'm using an ADM2600+ with 128MB ram and am not taxing the system much at all. I think a 1Ghz Pantium would be well more then required. OK that said. BIG remaining question. I've got some echo problems with the FXO card. Fixing this might take a lot of CPU power to do the required DSP. I don't know yet. But it works with two calls open at about 2% of the CPU utilization. ond the ADM 2600+ Pushing 8K sample/sec data aound is a very lightload audo at 8K is a very low data rate. My goal is to reduce the heat and electic power. I may try _under_ clocking the 2600+ and see if that makes it run cool enough that I can remove a fan. --- Trench Shoring <Trench-Shoring@gmx.net> wrote:> > I have been reading asterisks and everything I can get my hands on > for the > past week. I want to know what class processor is the bare minimum I > need > for a four port Asterisk installation? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users====Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 Christopher.J.Albertson@aero.org KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
Can anyone help in pointing me in the direction to configure my asterisk box to send a voice mail message waiting notification via my external POP3 server?
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:15, Chris Albertson wrote:> My goal is to reduce the heat and electic power. I may try > _under_ clocking the 2600+ and see if that makes it run cool > enough that I can remove a fan.You will probably run into stability issues. Underclocking can be just as bad for stability as overclocking. Maybe you should check into the ACPI or other power management functions to help reduce power requirements. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:38, Kevin wrote:> Can anyone help in pointing me in the direction to configure my asterisk > box to send a voice mail message waiting notification via my external > POP3 server?pop3 is not able to send messages. pop3 is just for picking up messages. You need to use sendmail or an equivalent application to send the mail via SMTP to the location you pick up mail. We covered this yesterday. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
> I have been reading asterisks and everything I can get my hands on for the > past week. I want to know what class processor is the bare minimum I need > for a four port Asterisk installation?As a low-end data point (probably not cool for a reasonable production box), I purchased a eMachine T2240 with a 2.2ghz Celeron, 40 gig drive, 384 meg ram, with integrated 10/100 nic from Circuit City (new, open box, with warranty, $300). Its running asterisk with 2 x100p's, festival, sendmail, apache, mysql, MOH, X11, Gnome, etc, just fine. Asterisk has three iax trunks running, a couple of remote nat'ed 7960's, a few local sip phones, and nothing very fancy for a dial plan. The size of the box (and its architecture) is far more related to voice traffic volumes and uptime then it is anything else. (e.g, if you never place a phone call, you don't need any resources; if you never click the console mouse, gnome is not consuming any cpu resource, etc, etc.) In an idle condition (no calls being processed), "top" is the heaviest app. Placing a single asterisk demo call from a sip phone (forcing iax2 to Digium) causes asterisk to bump towards the top at about 0.3% cpu utilization with an occasional random peak at 2% cpu. (A single pstn call via x100p to a 7960 averages about 1.0% cpu. Both of these are eyeball inspection of top.) I don't know what you mean by "port" in your statement, so can't comment on machine size. If you mean four physical pstn lines, I'd have to venture a guess and say the above machine could handle four x100p's. But, as you've already seen from the list, there are probably a dozen different ways to configure * to support any given set of requirements with different cost/benefit trade offs for each. The above just happens to be one of the the "cheapest" around for new assembled equipment with a so called warranty. Don't think I'd install it at a hospital or police department though. ;) Rich
Perhaps I should have been more specific, it wasn't clear in the discussion on this forum yesterday. I would my voice message waiting notification to be forwarded to my external ISP POP3 account. What is involved to set this up? Is configuring sendmail what is required? If so, are there any pointers for a configuration? Not a unix expert here....... Can anyone help in pointing me in the direction to configure my asterisk box to send a voice mail message waiting notification via my external POP3 server?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Adamson [mailto:radamson@routers.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:45 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Computing horsepower needed > > > > In a test system I can take out half the RAM, slow the CPU clock > > > or run the CPU without the cooling fan and just measure what > > > happens. Yes, stupid do do those things in a system people > > > are depending on. > > > > Agreed 100%. If you want to conduct experiments you do so byconducting> > them, not asking what the minimums are. > > > > I dunno, I am kind of in the same boat as Steven on this... ifyou're> gonna > > experiment then experiment. Don't decide to get into * and thefirst> thing > > out of your mouth is what's the bare minimum processor+ram you canget> to > > make it work... buy something moderately new (P3, 128M, IDE disk)-- it> > ain't gonna break the bank, it's gonna be easier to find and likelybe> far > > more reliable than that P90 you have in the back room that's been > gathering > > dust for the past 5 years. > > But... if you place yourself in the position of the newbie, where else > could > you ask given the "documentation" that truly doesn't exist (yet). > > Mark made the comment about a month ago that "asterisk is this bestkept> secret" in the world. The flip side of that is jumping on every newbie > that comes along and pissing them off enough to leave the list (andthe> app). For those that have been around here for more then 30 days, you > already know that's the nature of this list. If you don't like the > questions, > delete it and stop cluttering the list. >I really have to agree with Rich. I am a newbie. I have been reading the lists and watching the IRC and doing what I can to learn. The general feel that I get is a feeling of intolerance for people trying to learn and understand. Is it intentional? Do the people in the know not want anyone else to be part of a great app? Just wondering. Please try to have some consideration for everyone and follow Rich's suggestion, " If you don't like the questions, delete it and stop cluttering the list." I will continue to and use and learn because I think it is a great app. Just my observations. Thanks, Dustin Knuttgen> > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
That would do the job I have just been using Secure CRT for so long I have gotten use to it James Schenck Egraph Design Inc. Arkansas Online Internet Services (870) 857-3287 IAXTEL (700) 857-3287 jims@egraphdesign.com -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Juan J. Sierralta P. Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:17 AM To: Asterisk Users Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Computing horsepower needed On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:52, James Schenck wrote:> Get yourself > secure CRT http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ > and > win scp http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/What about putty ? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ -- Juanjo sin .sig _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users