Hello! There will be disk writing in these areas: 1. Logs 2. CDRs 3. MYSQL Call logs 4. Faxes and voicemail
Also, there will be a lot of codec encoding/decoding from/to the PRI devices, which is my main concern with CPU load. Cheers, Elliot On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Gordon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Elliot Murdock wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Oh, yes, I will be mirroring the harddrives in case of any failures. >> >> What is your opinion about using (software) RAID? Do you think the >> overhead impacts performance too much? >> >> In an ideal situation, I would use hardware RAID, but that is not >> feasible right now. > > I've used Linux software RAID for over 10 years now. for me, it's my first > choice. > > You shouldn't be doing many disk writes though - unless you're recording all > calls or handling a vast amount of voicemail. > > And with modern hardware there shouldn't be issues that we had in the bad > old days - DMA, PIO, etc. > > There is a double on resources required to write a block to a software > RAID-1 (mirror) unit but in a modern system, you're not going to notice it. > > And FWIW: I regularly have systems with 20-40 extensions running on a 1GHz > VIA processor, so CPU wise, you've got more than enough - unless you're > transcoding > > Gordon > > >> >> Thanks, >> Elliot >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jay Milk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Elliot Murdock wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Everybody! >>>> >>>> I am currently setting up an Asterisk server for medium to high load >>>> (approximately 20-35 concurrent phone lines). >>>> >>>> Do you think the following specs will sufficiently satisfy this system? >>>> >>>> CPU: XeonQC3220 2.4GHZ 8M >>>> RAM: 2X2GB/800 >>>> Harddrive: 1X250GB >>>> >>>> I could add harddrives and partition them into /var and /log >>>> directories to help with diskdrive throughput. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> Elliot >>>> >>>> >>> I'm sure this is common sense, but make sure you have a plan B for when >>> that HD fails. It will. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> -- 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- 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 > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 > _______________________________________________ -- 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
