----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > > > I'm looking for a small formfactor mobo for an install that needs to > > handle 25 phone sets (no transcoding). I found a new dual atom > > 1.66GHz > > mobo - anyone know what kinds of call volume that will handle? > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: > > > Based on comments from Ward Mundy during a recent VUC call I'd > > expect > > even a single CPU Atom system to handle that many phones in an > > office > > application. Perhaps there may be merit in dual CPU in more of a > > call > > center application. > > Assuming you're talking about something like the Atom 330... > > My guess is you will have plenty of horsepower for 25 phone sets -- > probably even 25 simultaneous calls. > > The 330 is dual-core and hyper-threaded so it shows up as 4 CPUs in > "top." > > Asterisk is multi-threaded and should distribute the workload. Another > advantage is that if you have something CPU heavy like bzip2'ing your > database dump or compiling Asterisk from source, there are still > several > "CPUs" available for Asterisk. >
I have a single rack server with a Atom 330 and 2GB RAM, six phones connected and probably a couple of simultaneous calls at one time. This is how it looks at the moment: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2049856 1346480 703376 0 181920 990376 -/+ buffers/cache: 174184 1875672 Swap: 4095992 0 4095992 top - 10:41:59 up 12 days, 16:03, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 122 total, 1 running, 121 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.4%id, 0.0%wa, 1.5%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.1%us, 0.0%sy, 0.1%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.1%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2049856k total, 1346232k used, 703624k free, 181920k buffers Swap: 4095992k total, 0k used, 4095992k free, 990376k cached Have a TDM card in the server and also use G729 codec and Skype for Asterisk. -- Thanks, Phil -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users