[Freeswitch-users] Speccing server for enterprise FS

Brian Foster bdfoster at endigotech.com
Thu Jun 21 18:25:41 MSD 2012


There are some things you can do to keep FreeSWITCH as the machines highest
priority but that's probably outside of the scope of this discussion.

Brian Foster
Endigo Computer LLC

Sent from a mobile device.
On Jun 21, 2012 10:22 AM, "Avi Marcus" <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:

> To clarify: FreeSWITCH doesn't need so much resources such that it needs
> to run standalone.
>
> However, as with virtualization... voip calls are meant to be real time
> and require real time processing.
> E.g. if you're running a ptime of 20 (the norm, it seems) that means there
> are 50 packets for each channel each second.
> Therefore, if the machine is busy for just 20ms and FS can't process that
> packet (on every channel!), stuff starts to happen. So running standalone
> it's more about rock-solid stability rather than just having, on average,
> enough CPU.
>
> -Avi
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Robert-IPhone <rhuddleston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I would never share roles with voip. Unless you are running a 2 line
>> office ;)
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone 4S
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Bzzz <lazyvirus at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:14:15 -0400
>> > Brian Foster <bdfoster at endigotech.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I would like to suggest that you should be doing HA and
>> >> load balancing between atleast two servers when dealing with that
>> >> kind of traffic. Its hard for me to justify putting all that
>> >> traffic on one server. Just food for thought. Depending on how
>> >> many calls you want to risk losing at any given time, your machine
>> >> specs might be much lower than expected.
>> >
>> > I hijack (a bit) this thread: with much lower needs than Alex (let's
>> > say for an average size SME's PBX), shall FS perform well on a
>> > machine that is already a svr for other things (lets says, e-mail,
>> > IM, files (samba), etc, or does it need to be on a stand alone?
>> > (in any case w/ its own Ethernet I/F)
>> >
>> > JY
>> > --
>> > When the shit hits the fan, keep your mouth shut!
>> >
>> >
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