[Freeswitch-users] CPU for FS boxes. High freq.? or more cores? or more cache?

[Ken Rice]

more cores with freeswitch is almost always better. freeswitch is designed to be highly multi-threaded. 

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> On Jan 24, 2018, at 21:33, Joel Serrano <joel at gogii.net> wrote:
> 
> Giving that the topic has come up... what if it was completely the opposite? Say a node that only does conferences or every single call is transcoded, would you go for high frequency in that case or would “more cores” be a better option?
> 
> Joel. 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 15:21 Alexey Sibyakin <alex at freeswitch.com> wrote:
>> If no transcoding or resampling will be performed there is no need for high freq. More cores definitely will help with more sessions (a lot of threads, less costly context switches).
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:05 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If I have to compromise, in your case I'd go with more cores.
>>> 
>>> -giovanni
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 24 January 2018 at 14:15, Adam Raszynski <netcentrica at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> I plan to buy some new servers to use as FreeSWITCH boxes
>>>> 
>>>> Servers mainly bridge calls and proxy media from A to B. No special features, but they got a lot of traffic and customers require high quality of calls.
>>>> 
>>>> What is the best practice in choosing CPU for FS boxes?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I see different options:
>>>> 
>>>> - high frequency (4GHz+) desktop CPU's like Intel i7 series
>>>> 
>>>> - medium frequency Xeons/Opterons, but with large cache
>>>> 
>>>> - low frequency Xeons/Opterons but with many cores
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Unfortunately I can't find reasonably priced CPU's that will have both high freq., many cores and large cache so need to pick what's the best
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What is most important performance-wise for low latency, high quality media bridging? More single core frequency? More cache? More cores?
>>>> 
>>>> Kind Regards
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