On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, OCG Technical Support wrote: > I'm looking at building up a standard asterisk system fanless/no moving > parts. I found a cheap solid state disk (Transcend TS32GSSD25S-M), but it > is SLOW...25mb/sec read 8mb/sec write.
M bits/sec or bytes/sec? If bytes, then that's a fast device! If bits, then it's about right. > Has anyone tried a slow disk like this on asterisk? Will this delay voice > prompts or screw up ast/linux in any interesting way? The easy answer is to not run directly off the flash, but to unload the flash into RAM and run from a ramdisk. This is what I do in my systems - boot off flash into RAM, then everything runs in RAM. Except a separate partition for voicemail. Eg: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 136M 105M 32M 77% / tmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 64M 1.9M 63M 3% /data Even if you're running "live" out of flash, it'll be fine as Linux will buffer everything up in RAM anyway, so you might have a 'hit' the first time round (unlikely though), but after that it ought to stay in RAM if you've got enough. > (I know there are linux distros and Asterisk projects designed to run off > CF, but I'm hoping to stay mainstream) I'd suggest rolling your own rather than running directly off flash though. Gordon _______________________________________________ -- 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
