I currently have some Asterisk home servers on general pc hardware as well as a mission critical server asterisk pbx running on a Dell 2850 To reduce noise and power consumption i would like to migrate them all to an Intel Atom based solution, showstoppers so far were single NIC and single PCI slot motherboards. I found that Supermicro makes a Dual NIC board with one PCI slot and 2 PCI-Express slots (X7SLA-L) Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ? I am aware about other solutions but i do use the servers for some other tasks therefore don't want to move to a dedicated pbx box based on Soekris or the likes. Thanks for any input!
----- "Remco Barendse" <asterisk at barendse.to> wrote:> I currently have some Asterisk home servers on general pc hardware as > well > as a mission critical server asterisk pbx running on a Dell 2850 > > To reduce noise and power consumption i would like to migrate them all > to > an Intel Atom based solution, showstoppers so far were single NIC and > > single PCI slot motherboards. I found that Supermicro makes a Dual NIC > > board with one PCI slot and 2 PCI-Express slots (X7SLA-L) > > Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) > Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the > interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ? > > I am aware about other solutions but i do use the servers for some > other > tasks therefore don't want to move to a dedicated pbx box based on > Soekris > or the likes. > > Thanks for any input! >I am running a Atom Jetway JNC92 1.6GHz Dual Core Atom Motherboard with 2 x Gigabit LAN, 2GB RAM, TDM400P and it works great :) -- Thanks, Phil
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Remco Barendse wrote:> I currently have some Asterisk home servers on general pc hardware as well > as a mission critical server asterisk pbx running on a Dell 2850 > > To reduce noise and power consumption i would like to migrate them all to > an Intel Atom based solution, showstoppers so far were single NIC and > single PCI slot motherboards. I found that Supermicro makes a Dual NIC > board with one PCI slot and 2 PCI-Express slots (X7SLA-L) > > Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) > Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the > interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ? > > I am aware about other solutions but i do use the servers for some other > tasks therefore don't want to move to a dedicated pbx box based on Soekris > or the likes.I started on a 500Mhz VIA chip with TDM400 card and that coped (still does) very well with the call load of 12 people and 3 analogue lines... So anything bigger is not going to have any issues. I also have several other Atom based servers - Asterisk and otherwise. Beware the cheap (fast!) little fans on them though - every single one has failled on me so-far. (And this includes ones in clean air AC server room environments) Gordon
At 11:19 PM 2/2/2010, you wrote:>Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) >Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the >interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ?I run 3 pots lines into a TDM04 on an Atom 330 board with no problems. 3 POTS and 4 SIP lines coming in, 3 Aastra SIP phones and 2 people. Been running the Atom for a year or so. Building takes a bit longer than the old machine, but not enough to be annoying. Ira
Ira, Are you running anything clunky on there like FreePBX or mysql? And based on your experience with the Atom board, do you think you would have performance problems with said clunkiness? Thanks, Lyle On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:50 -0800, Ira wrote:> At 11:19 PM 2/2/2010, you wrote: > >Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) > >Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the > >interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ? > > I run 3 pots lines into a TDM04 on an Atom 330 board with no > problems. 3 POTS and 4 SIP lines coming in, 3 Aastra SIP phones and 2 > people. Been running the Atom for a year or so. Building takes a bit > longer than the old machine, but not enough to be annoying. > > Ira > >
The Atom boards are fine for Asterisk and even some "clunkyness"... Transcoding is where the Atom boards could cause issues but this is in the realm of 50 channels or so... ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Lyle Underwood <lyleunderwood at gmail.com> wrote:> Ira, > > Are you running anything clunky on there like FreePBX or mysql? And > based on your experience with the Atom board, do you think you would > have performance problems with said clunkiness? > > Thanks, > Lyle > > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:50 -0800, Ira wrote: >> At 11:19 PM 2/2/2010, you wrote: >> >Has anyone tried running Asterisk + CentOS 5 on this (or any other) >> >Atom board? Is the Atom platform able to handle the load of all the >> >interrupts a TE110P or TDM400P card will generate ? >> >> I run 3 pots lines into a TDM04 on an Atom 330 board with no >> problems. 3 POTS and 4 SIP lines coming in, 3 Aastra SIP phones and 2 >> people. Been running the Atom for a year or so. Building takes a bit >> longer than the old machine, but not enough to be annoying. >> >> Ira >> >> > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > ? http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >