There is nothing wrong with running Asterisk on SMP. It runs quite well actually.
I'm assuming you just have the Quad Xeon 450mhz sitting around because you can't buy them new anymore, so it probably isn't costing you anything to use it. In which case it isn't a waste. If you are paying more than $800 for it, save it and just buy a new P4 for less. A $200 machine may not be able to handle 25 concurrent conversations, and may have some used or sub-standard parts in it, so that may not be the best choice. You should be able to have upto 25 channels running on this machine no problem, How many maximum conversations do you forsee running concurrently at one time on this system? MATT--- -----Original Message----- From: Matt Schulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Meaning Asterisk won't/can't take advantage of the four CPU's? Or it's overkill for this scenario? -----Original Message----- From: joachim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMP Performance Send me the quad and i'll send you a 200$ pc to do this job. The quad is heavily overpowered. Joachim. At 22:00 24/08/2004, you wrote: >content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C48A15.130BF232" > >We're looking at implementing Asterisk in our department in the near >future, we're looking at anywhere from 15-25 extensions. The machine we >were looking at running this on was a Quad Xeon 450mhz (2MB L2 Cache) w/ >1GB of ram. I've heard bad things about running Asterisk on SMP machines? >Would we be running into any performance issues with this machine? > >Tim Jackson >Network Engineer >Angelina County, Texas >(936)639-4827 office >(936)414-6723 mobile > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
