Anton, A great tool for "ghetto" call capacity testing is a single snom phone. There is no limit to how many calls a snom phone can make, just put it on hold and dial again. So, with a single snom phone and a little imagination you can test any number of scenarios. You can approximate basic SIP capacity by creating an extension that plays the asterisk test message and dialing it repeatedly until quality starts to degrade or asterisk gives up. To simulate actual call throughput you really need another (faster) machine to connect to, but you can use the same technique.
You can run "top" on the console while you are doing your tests to see what resources you are using. Check your logs when you are done to see what errors were generated when it came unglued. CPU is not always the limiting resource, especially with Digium card interfaces which tend to be bound by FSB speed, but echo cancellation and codec conversion will burn a LOT of cycles. Michael Crown Managing Partner www.thevoipconnection.com 321.989.6728 ext. 611 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Anton Krall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:56 PM > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Load Testing > > Guys. > > How and which tools to use to load test an asterisk install? > Say for example, you need to see how many calls can be routed > thru before losing quality and making the cpu jump to the roof? > > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users