[Freeswitch-users] AMD

[Michael Jerris]

Have not tested it lately, but likely still true, in regards to "I guess"... why not just try it and see for sure?

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Abaci B <abaci64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I remember in the early days of FreeSWITCH it was recommended to turn off hyperthreading as it had a negative impact on FreeSWITCH performace, Can someone confirm if this has changed with newer processors or newer kernel, if hyperthreading boosts performance then I would guess that a 10 core xeon would give me at least as much performace as a 16 core AMD.
> Thanks
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com <mailto:mike at jerris.com>> wrote:
> You would have to test to see, most of my experience is a couple chip generations back now but bang for the buck was much better with intel then and we saw many more weird issues on AMD boxes.
> 
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> On Sunday, February 14, 2016, Abaci B <abaci64 at gmail.com <mailto:abaci64 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know that in general Intel Xeon processors are recommended over AMD for FreeSWITCH, my question is if AMD is really bad or just not as good as Intel, I can get now a server with 4x AMD 6174 (48 Core total) for about the same price I would pay for a Dual Xeon 6 Core (12 core total), Should I go for the AMD which will give me 4x the amount of cores or stick to Xeon, my goal is to get the maximum amount of channels/calls  (doing lua IVR with no transcoding) and conferencing.
> Any help, feedback, benchmarks or personal experience would be appreciated
> Thanks

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