I've tried to find some details on the wiki, but was unable to get a satisfactory result, so I am asking here: I have a Linux (FC3) box with these specs: vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 3 model name : AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 797.388 cache size : 64 KB MEM: currently 256, looking to upgrade to 512/768 (depending on available sticks) HDD: 80 GB It is currently doing File/Printer serving. Ideally I'd want it to do Asterisk (2 ISDN BRI & 8 phones), File/Printer server on a home network (3 clients) and some light SMTP (< 100 emails a day) Is this machine sufficient for the task? (Ignoring the fact it needs either a multi-BRI card or 2 single BRI cards to be able to connect to the PSTN <G>) TIA! -- Francesco Peeters ---- GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CA certificate.
As an asterisk server it is more than fine but asterisk prefers to be a standalone machine. You would have a lot less issues if you had 2 machines, one handling file serving, SMTP and one dedicate machine for asterisk. Voice isn't very tolerant of interrupts. Cheers, Dean> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Francesco Peeters > Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 7:28 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Is this server sufficient? > > I've tried to find some details on the wiki, but was unable to get a > satisfactory result, so I am asking here: > > I have a Linux (FC3) box with these specs: > > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 6 > model : 3 > model name : AMD Duron(tm) Processor > stepping : 1 > cpu MHz : 797.388 > cache size : 64 KB > > MEM: currently 256, looking to upgrade to 512/768 (depending onavailable> sticks) > > HDD: 80 GB > > It is currently doing File/Printer serving. > > Ideally I'd want it to do Asterisk (2 ISDN BRI & 8 phones),File/Printer> server on a home network (3 clients) and some light SMTP (< 100 emailsa> day) > > Is this machine sufficient for the task? (Ignoring the fact it needs > either a multi-BRI card or 2 single BRI cards to be able to connect tothe> PSTN <G>) > > TIA! > > -- > Francesco Peeters > ---- > GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 > If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit > http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CAcertificate.> _______________________________________________ > 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
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 07:27, Francesco Peeters wrote:> It is currently doing File/Printer serving. > > Ideally I'd want it to do Asterisk (2 ISDN BRI & 8 phones), File/Printer > server on a home network (3 clients) and some light SMTP (< 100 emails a > day) > > Is this machine sufficient for the task? (Ignoring the fact it needs > either a multi-BRI card or 2 single BRI cards to be able to connect to the > PSTN <G>)I don't see a reason why it won't work. I have done the same on a 600MHz machine and as long as I did not have anything major going on it worked fine. Of course you will find that you can have potential problems with all sorts of h/w once you put some load on Asterisk. Another box I tried was a top of the line Intel w dual Xeon (also 600MHz) that once cost over $10,000. It did not work too well, even on single phone calls. Then I tried an IBM 600MHz single processor which does just fine. You will notice rather easily when your h/w cannot keep up. Ideally all you do on an Asterisk box is run Asterisk, but as I said you'll notice when it's not up to the task. When you use cpu intensive codecs you'll see when your machine is not up to it. Just dive in and try it. I think someone here got a 233MHz machine to handle single calls... As long as you use Linux you won't have any problems installing Asterisk just to test it. Unlike other O/S's it won't mess anything up. Good Luck! -- List Manager Network Voice Comunications, Inc. netwvcom.com