Hi,
In constant search for optimization, a friend told us about his experience with Gentoo Linux-distro. He claimed that he doubled the performance of his server by changing to Gentoo from Debian.
Does anyone have any experience with running Asterisk on a Gentoo linux?
/Niels
Niels,
While Gentoo is an excellent distro - it's not really because it is built from source. Doubling the speed of a server? Not likely, not even close.
Gentoo is very nice because they let you chose every component. It's also a big pain because they let you chose every component. You have to manually emerge EVERYTHING - from a system logger to traceroute and other "core" utilities. It does make things nice for small embedded systems. My distro (AstLinux) is based off of Gentoo because it was designed to run on a very small and specific platform - perfect for Gentoo. Portage is also kept reasonable up to date, and USE flags are cool.
Please note that I am not bashing Gentoo, I really rather like it and enjoy it's flexibility. We really don't need a long flaming distro war or anything, as this has happened several times before. I Just do not believe in such substantial claims made by some of the "compile everything from source" crowd.
Your best bet: test it yourself for what you want to run - in this case, Asterisk. Download some stage three's: one for 386 and one for your closest processor (or go from stage one and spend more time on it). Read up on optimizations and tweak one out while leaving the other as plain old 386 code. Run some benchmarks (compile Linux kernel, ubench, openssl, whatever). Ditto with Asterisk, and let us all know!
-- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ 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
