Thank you, that's very useful information! Does the same go for issuing a "sip show peers" through the AMI? And do you know where I could find information of what asterisk versions may use cached information instead?
What would you suggest be better ways to monitor asterisk information? On 24 April 2014 17:58, Scott Griepentrog <[email protected]> wrote: > How much Asterisk is affected depends on both how often you run a command, > and even more significantly, what command you run (and which version of > Asterisk). > > Commands that display information about every active channel, for example > "sip show peers", may slow other processing significantly because they have > to briefly lock the data structures to insure valid information. There > have been improvements in more recent versions of Asterisk that reduce the > negative affects of this by looking at cached information instead of > locking everything. > > On the other hand, requesting specific information (sip show peer X) or > more generic information (sip show inuse) will have much less affect on > other activity in Asterisk. > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Mikael Fredin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just like the subject sais - how expensive is it to execute a lot of >> these commands to keep track of different things in asterisk? >> >> I have avoided doing this because it feels a bit like a risk to spam the >> asterisk CLI this way, but is it really? >> >> CPU-wise it doesn't seem very expensive to do it 100 times a second (from >> a simple test I did), but is it possible it will affect the asterisk >> service in any other negative way? >> >> Regards, >> Mikael >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- 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 >> > > > > -- > [image: Digium logo] > Scott Griepentrog > Digium, Inc · Software Developer > 445 Jan Davis Drive NW · Huntsville, AL 35806 · US > direct/fax: +1 256 428 6239 · mobile: +1 317 507 4029 > Check us out at: http://digium.com · http://asterisk.org > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 >
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