[Freeswitch-users] Performance

[Ken Rice]

> From: Anton <anton.vazir at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:28:40 +0500
> To: <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Performance
> 
> On 1 March 2007 21:06, Ken Rice wrote:
>> I got about 2500 single legged ulaw calls, doing media
>> playback a slinear file (answer play a file, hangup) on a
>> 2.8Ghz P4 w/ 1G ram (Dell SC430)
>> 
>> Note: I did have to load the media file into a ram drive
>> to keep disk access times reasonable...
> 
> Why so? You media file should have been already cached in
> the memory after first access, so no more disk access more
> the given media file... No?

I was dealing with limited memory... On the machine... So to eliminate
possibility of cache misses just loaded it into a small ramdrive...

Also FS doesn't load the entire file into memory it grabs what it needs...
If you were streaming a large file you could consume a ton of memory