asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Benchmarking an Asterisk Server with 14k users

Hello,

one of our clients is currently testing three installations:

- Cisco Callmanager 5
- Siemens HiPath 8000
- Asterisk

To get an impression how these system behave under heavy load, he's going to
use an ABACUS 5000 system 
(http://www.spirentcom.com/analysis/technology.cfm?media=7&WS=325&SS=111&wt=2)
so simulate 14k users, calling each others, in other words 7k simultaneous 
calls. His main aim is to compare Cisco and Siemens, but he asked me whether 
we would be interested in testing the Asterisk server, too.
Of course, I agreed! And I asked him whether we could publish the results, 
e.g. on this mailing list - he agreed!

Well, asterisk experts, now it's your turn. Can you give me
hints/information
on how to optimize the asterisk system?
And are there special details that you want me to test, besides the fact how 
many calls the system can handle?
The more input you give me, the more output I can give back.
The test will take place at the end of april.

To make it clear: We don't want to compare the three system against each 
other. The asterisk server is running on a completely different hardware. We 
just have the chance to simulate a large number of callers on an asterisk 
system, we don't have to pay for the test and we can keep/publish the
results
-great!  ;-))

Waiting for suggestions,

Stefan

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On 03/31/06 00:28 Stefan-Michael. Guenther (in-put GbR) said the
following:
> To make it clear: We don't want to compare the three system against
each
> other. The asterisk server is running on a completely different hardware.
We
what are the hardware and OS specs for the asterisk server ? this will form 
the crux of what you're testing. 7,000 simultaneous calls seems high for a 
single server to handle, you may need to build a cluster of asterisk 
servers to handle this. signate has claimed 5,000 simultaneous calls on 
their asterisk based product.

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