Lonnie, Nik & Mark: Thanks for the information.
Currently, I am running Asterisk on an old AMD Athlon 1.2ghz box. This box is really beginning to show its age and starting to be unreliable. The box is on its 4th hard drive and 3rd power supply. It started life as a cheap desktop and served me well since before Asterisk 1.0. It is time to replace it with something new and reliable, hence my recent interest into a Soekris box. I am running 100% VoIP here with only an old X100P used as a timing device (hold over from the days when ztdummy didn't exist). I have 5 SIP phones, 1 SIP service provider and 3 IAX providers for origination and termination. Average call load is 1 to 2 concurrent calls. Maximum call load is during a weekly staff MeetMe conference call which includes between 4 and 6 individuals. Music on hold is also required. I know that Soekris boards are rock solid. Given my call load & usage, does it look like a Soekris board can fulfill my needs? Thanks to everyone for they input. Regards, Robert On Mar 11, 2006, at 6:30 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > Robert: > I have a 4801-50, and top displays > > voip root # top > Mem: 35368K used, 91388K free, 0K shrd, 1424K buff, 22180K cached > Load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 (State: S=sleeping R=running, > W=waiting) > ... > voip root # uptime > 06:02:22 up 29 days, 10:25, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00 > > If you are concerned about memory leaks, I gave the uptime. > Conclusion: the -50 has plenty of memory at 128K. > > Mark: > I disagree with your statement that "there ain't none!" to the 4801 > horsepower issue. > > If a person uses the 4801 with AstLinux with 100% VoIP, little or no > CODEC transcoding, and a little better, no SIP to IAX2 transcoding, > the > Soekris 4801 will fill most small business's internet connection, with > CPU to spare. > > Isn't that the point of an embedded system? Find a problem and > solve it > very efficiently. This lowers the cost, but more importantly > increases > stability and MTBF. > > If you are popping in cards that haven't been tweaked and tweaked, > that > is another story. > > I have no data, but the quality of the Soekris logic-board appears > very > good to me. > > Lonnie > > On Mar 10, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> I think the issue is not that of RAM (I have a -50) but that of horse >> power - there ain't none! >> >> I had to abandon my X100P card which was installed into mine. >> Whenever >> I >> made an outgoing call via Broadvoice my POTS calls would break up and >> then fail. I pulled the card and replaced it with an SPA-3000. >> Everything is fine now. >> >> Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI >> Randolph, NJ >> http://www.g7ltt.com >> >> >> Robert J. Lawrence wrote: >>> I am looking to purchase a Soekris NET4801 for an AstLinux box. Is >>> there any real benefit of the additional RAM in the -60 model when >>> using AstLinux? Or should I just go with the -50? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Astlinux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users >>> >>> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
