>> Are there any way of configuring of Asterisk so it'll cache sound files >> in memory, and when Asterisk receive a call, instead of loading sound >> files from the disk
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Luki wrote: > Not directly, but it's not really needed. A long as the machine has > enough RAM, the files will be served from RAM by the operating system. > Sure there is the overhead of opening/closing files and reading them, > but on modern OS this overhead is negligible if the files are cached > (asterisk may even use mmap, but I'm not sure). > > You can also make a ram disk (say via tmpfs), copy the sounds there and > symlink the sound directory to that location. However, I don't think you > will gain much. A bit off topic, but recently I was trying to improve the performance of a MythTV frontend (a Linux home theater application). I tried tmpfs and /dev/ramx and neither yielded noticeable improvement. My informal conclusion is that Linux does a good enough job at managing memory that tweaking is probably not worth it. -- Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
