Chris and Darrick, thanks for the feedback. I think I'll end up with
another ALIX of some sort.
Regards,
Michael Sprague
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 10:25 AM, Chris Abnett wrote:
> > Ive seen those boards before.. im a little apprehensive when it says it
> > is a 486SX processor which would indicate no math coprocessor.. not sure
> > how it would handle transcoding and the like…
> >
> > I like the ALIX and soekris boards….
> >
> > As far as speed ive run astlinux on the older soekris net4801, and was
> > only able to get about 5 simultaneous calls at a time esp if any call
> > was on the voicemail system or hearing Music on hold.. I did a little
> > better if it was just straight up calls…
> >
> > On my net5501 im able to easily pull off 20 calls at a time…
> >
> > I don’t do any transcoding and no voice compression…
> >
> > My net5501’s are installed as legacy PBX replacements, where I have SIP
> > to a T1 gateway and then TDM T1 to the PSTN….
> >
> > The alix 6E2 board gives me very good performance also.. the only reason
> > I tend to use more soekris than alix is the fact the net5501 has 512 MB
> > of RAM to the alix 256 MB of RAM….. I want to try and stay out of the
> > Swap space as much as possible.. as that’s a real performance killer… I
> > also like to run a RAMdisk and have my static voice files there during
> runtime…
>
> Astlinux does not use swap. Swapping to flash memory would be brutal on
> flash (and on system performance). There's really no reason to store
> static voice files in a ramdisk. There may be a performance
> improvement, but I haven't seen a case where voice playback was hindered
> by reading from flash. There also is no damaged caused to the flash
> media for reads (only writes).
>
> I would have the same concerns about the processor.
>
> Darrick
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