asterisk users - May 2008 - Why "should not run FastAGI on the same server" ?

Hello,

Here (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+FastAGI), you
can see :
"You will even see some improvement when converting your existing AGIs into
FastAGIs and running them on the same server as your phone system, though
this is not always feasible or recommended."

Why "this is not always feasible or recommended" ?
Shall I understand "it's worth to try but if the burden is too heavy
for a
single machine, be prepared to use two machines" ?

Regards
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Hello,

There is nothing wrong at all with running FastAGI on the same server
as Asterisk. In fact a couple years ago, moving our call logging
script from an AGI to a FastAGI in VICIDIAL reduced the load on the
machine by over 50%. This might be an extremem example, but it
illustrates the gains that can be made using FastAGI even on the same
server.

MATT---

On 5/27/08, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here
> (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+FastAGI),
> you can see :
> "You will even see some improvement when converting your existing AGIs
into
> FastAGIs and running them on the same server as your phone system, though
> this is not always feasible or recommended."
>
> Why "this is not always feasible or recommended" ?
> Shall I understand "it's worth to try but if the burden is too
heavy for a
> single machine, be prepared to use two machines" ?
>
> Regards
>
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The entire idea of using FastAGI is to relieve the Asterisk server of handling
all the processing done by the AGI processes spawned by AGI/DeadAGI on the
current server. With FastAGI, the business logic processing is supposed to be
done on another server, thereby reducing load on the current one.

- Ben.



--- On Tue, 5/27/08, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com> wrote:
> From: Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Why "should not run FastAGI on the same
server" ?
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 9:28 AM
> Hello,
> 
> Here
> (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+FastAGI),
> you
> can see :
> "You will even see some improvement when converting
> your existing AGIs into
> FastAGIs and running them on the same server as your phone
> system, though
> this is not always feasible or recommended."
> 
> Why "this is not always feasible or recommended"
> ?
> Shall I understand "it's worth to try but if the
> burden is too heavy for a
> single machine, be prepared to use two machines" ?
> 
> Regards_______________________________________________
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