asterisk users - Aug 2010 - Yes it is a dimensioning question! Atom CPU

I am looking for pros and cons on the Intel Atom cpu.  Has anybody been using 
these in production?  I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M cache) 
to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as high as 7 
simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through except voicemail will be wav 
format for email purposes(requirement).  I will be tying 3 of these together to 
route calls between different offices.  What are the gotcha?s and ?things to 
think about? that you may have seen in your deployments.  Haven?t decided 
between latest 1.4 or 1.6 yet, probably 1.6.
Thank you for any words of wisdom you may wish to share.
JohnM

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On 31 Aug 2010, at 16:37, jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com
wrote:
> I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M cache) 
> to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as high as 7 
> simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through
Sounds fine to me. Reckon you could do that on a toaster ;)

S

On 31 Aug 2010, at 17:58, jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com
wrote:
>> On 31 Aug 2010, at 16:37, jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com
wrote:
>>> I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M cache) 
>>> to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as
high as 7
>>> simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through
>> Sounds fine to me. Reckon you could do that on a toaster ;)
> That is what I was thinking.  I have an eeebox at home that does fine with
a
> single core Atom(1 or 2 simultaneous calls) but I do not have any real
world
> testing/experiance for these so I thought I would get some expert
opionions.
Please don't reply to me directly, reply to the list address (contained
within the Reply-To field).

Thanks.

S

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com wrote:
> I am looking for pros and cons on the Intel Atom cpu.  Has anybody been
using
> these in production?  I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M
cache)
> to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as high as 7
> simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through except voicemail will be wav
> format for email purposes(requirement).  I will be tying 3 of these
together to
> route calls between different offices.  What are the gotcha?s and ?things
to
> think about? that you may have seen in your deployments.  Haven?t decided
> between latest 1.4 or 1.6 yet, probably 1.6.
> Thank you for any words of wisdom you may wish to share.
> JohnM
I can do that on my mobile phone, so you will have no issues doing that on 
an Atom. I use Atoms for VoIP/Asterisk servers. I have some with dozens 
times more than you're trying to achieve.

(very highly tuned and not an off the shelft type installation, but that's 
just me)

Get fanless board if you can. 1GB of RAM is fine if you're not running a 
GUI on it.

Gordon

> Sounds fine to me. Reckon you could do that on a toaster ;)
>
> S
Thanks, I needed to clean this keyboard anyway....

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM,  <jmillican at
sentinelcommunications.com> wrote:
<snip>
> simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through except voicemail will be wav
> format for email purposes(requirement).
</snip>

This will take up most of your CPU cycles, be sure to keep transcoding
to a minimum.

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