Ah read your reply too late, yeah I will look into using the AMI.
On 24 April 2014 20:58, Scott Griepentrog <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a good point also - if you're doing something automated, AMI is > likely a better option. The connection to Asterisk is persistent, and > information output is structured and we take pains not to break the API > definition, which is not true of CLI output. > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Tzafrir Cohen > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:20:37PM +0200, Mikael Fredin 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? >> >> It "feels" very expensive. Part of it is because of starting a new >> instance of Asterisk. It will not load any module and such, but if you >> care about speed, you can use netcat (it takes some care). >> >> You'll also encounter some artificial delays in the response which make >> it feel more expensive. >> >> The main reason to avoid it is because its output is not intended for >> automated parsing. >> >> -- >> Tzafrir Cohen >> icq#16849755 jabber:[email protected] >> +972-50-7952406 mailto:[email protected] >> http://www.xorcom.com >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- 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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