[Asterisk-Users] How Many Calls On This Config

Andrew Thompson
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:14:05 -0000

mattf wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Luke Catranis [mailto:luke@catranis.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:46 AM
>> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How Many Calls On This Config
>>
>>
>> I've seen a couple posts about SMP, and I'm wondering if anyone
has
>> an idea what I can handle with this box:
>>
>> Dual P2 Xeon 450 MHZ with 2MB L2 Cache
>> 1 GB PC100 SDRAM
>> RAID 5
>>
>> Running SuSE 9.1 2.6 SMP Kernel...
>>
> We have a test server that runs a single PIII 500MHz(256MB RAM) under
> Slackware, and we can get 12 SIP -> Zap calls running on it just
> fine. Over that and we have seen intermittant errors like call
> quality and very high load spikes. You should be able to get at least
> 24 SIP -> Zap on that setup. Post on the list when you do max it out.
> It's always good to see capacity specs.
>
> MATT---

What difference would you say the amount of RAM makes? Specific things you
can/can't do? Call quality?

What do y'all consider the minimum amount of RAM for passing as an asterisk
server?

What point is overkill on a per user basis? (If anyone's researched this.)

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Andrew Thompson