We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache) w/ 1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMP machines? Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? Tim Jackson Network Engineer Angelina County, Texas (936)639-4827 office (936)414-6723 mobile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040824/61ea57c6/attachment.htm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:00 pm, Tim Jackson wrote:> We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near > future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we > were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache) w/ > 1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMP > machines? Would we be running into any performance issues with this > machine?I'm testing a dual Xeon running 650MHz 768MB and I estimate that it might handle about 12 connections on g.729. No SMP issues I'm aware of. - -- Steve "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBK8pRljK16xgETzkRAl7kAKDaOZCElZ2oZZgmnyGc2BlM5sjVfgCgzwSP alRl1n7b91TBC2MHah+1TjI=E06r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we >were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache) w/ >1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMP machines? >Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:zoachien@securax.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)w/>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMPmachines?>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Er, I wasn't the one who owns the quad xeon. Just a curious person. :-) -----Original Message----- From: mattf [mailto:mattf@vicimarketing.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:43 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well actually. I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because you can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to use it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for it, save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able to handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or sub-standard parts in it, so that may not be the best choice. You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running concurrently at one time on this system? MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schulte [mailto:mschulte@netlogic.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:zoachien@securax.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)w/>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMPmachines?>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well actually. I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because you can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to use it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for it, save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able to handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or sub-standard parts in it, so that may not be the best choice. You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running concurrently at one time on this system? MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schulte [mailto:mschulte@netlogic.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:zoachien@securax.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)w/>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMPmachines?>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
25 should be the max ever. This machine used to be my testbed server. I may end up swapping it out later for a 1U IBM, but I just wanted to make sure that in the meantime it'd be able to handle what we are doing with it. We bought it "refurbished" for $600 about a year ago. I was just wondering about the SMP part, I've been told that it doesn't work well with SMP, and then I've been told it works fine. I just wanted a 2nd or 3rd opinion before I went ahead and implemented this. Another dumb question, I've gotten the idea that the best phones out there are the Cisco 7960s, any other good phones out there that are decently priced? Nortel? 3Com? -Tim -----Original Message----- From: mattf [mailto:mattf@vicimarketing.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:43 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well actually. I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because you can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to use it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for it, save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able to handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or sub-standard parts in it, so that may not be the best choice. You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running concurrently at one time on this system? MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schulte [mailto:mschulte@netlogic.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:zoachien@securax.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)w/>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMPmachines?>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
We are currently running 4 asterisk servers in production all running SMP and performance is better under SMP than non-SMP. Right now we are averaging just under 20,000 calls (both in and out) a day on those 4 servers. As for the "BEST" VOIP phone, that is certainly up for debate. Here are my opinions: Cisco phones work well but are expensive Polycom phones are extremely similar to the Ciscos but are much cheaper. 3com phones are tricky to set up with Asterisk Snom phones are very good but take some getting used to I don't know of many people who have successfully set up Nortel VOIP phones on asterisk Avaya as always is expensive for what you get Pingtel's are pretty but there are current and future support and compatibility issues so I've heard Mitel VOIP phones work but do not offer enough features to justify the cost right now Grandstream phones are cheap(enough said) Sipura Analog adapters are very configurable and much cheaper than Cisco ATA Hope this helps. MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Tim Jackson [mailto:tim@angelinacounty.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:44 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance 25 should be the max ever. This machine used to be my testbed server. I may end up swapping it out later for a 1U IBM, but I just wanted to make sure that in the meantime it'd be able to handle what we are doing with it. We bought it "refurbished" for $600 about a year ago. I was just wondering about the SMP part, I've been told that it doesn't work well with SMP, and then I've been told it works fine. I just wanted a 2nd or 3rd opinion before I went ahead and implemented this. Another dumb question, I've gotten the idea that the best phones out there are the Cisco 7960s, any other good phones out there that are decently priced? Nortel? 3Com? -Tim -----Original Message----- From: mattf [mailto:mattf@vicimarketing.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:43 AM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well actually. I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because you can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to use it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for it, save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able to handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or sub-standard parts in it, so that may not be the best choice. You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running concurrently at one time on this system? MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schulte [mailto:mschulte@netlogic.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:zoachien@securax.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote:>content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we>were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache)w/>1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMPmachines?>Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users