asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Will a VIA Epia ME6000 with a 600MHz Eden fanless CPU be suffiecient for 8 extension system?

Hello

I am using a VIA Epia ME6000 with a 600MHz Eden Fanless CPU.  Is this likely 
to be enough power for a 8 extension system with 6 external pstn lines?

How important is cpu?  Is there some measure, eg xMHz CPU per extension or 
something benchmark?

I have installed 512MB memory - again any benchmark for asterisk memory 
usage?

Angus

Angus Comber wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using a VIA Epia ME6000 with a 600MHz Eden Fanless CPU.  Is this 
> likely to be enough power for a 8 extension system with 6 external 
> pstn lines?
>
> How important is cpu?  Is there some measure, eg xMHz CPU per 
> extension or something benchmark?
>
> I have installed 512MB memory - again any benchmark for asterisk 
> memory usage?
>
> Angus
>
>
Hello Angus!
We are using the MII6000 at several locations.  Some with 4port FXO, 
others with T1.  Users range from 3-15.
They have been running fine, one location with only 4 users is running 
with 128meg ram because our 1gig chip was bad - and even they haven't 
had any trouble.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:32:07PM +0100, Angus Comber
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am using a VIA Epia ME6000 with a 600MHz Eden Fanless CPU.  Is this 
> likely to be enough power for a 8 extension system with 6 external pstn 
> lines?
Probably, yes.
> 
> How important is cpu?  Is there some measure, eg xMHz CPU per extension or 
> something benchmark?
CPU can be used for transcoding: for WAN VoIP, potentially for
conferencing, for MusicOnHold (if from mp3s)
> 
> I have installed 512MB memory - again any benchmark for asterisk memory 
> usage?
AFAIK Asterisk is not memory-hungry. CPU is your main concern. Actually:
keep the CPU always free enough to timely handle sound.

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