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

Thu Jan 25 18:47:55 UTC 2018

Just wondering if anyone had a chance to test FreeSWITCH on the new AMD Zen
Architecture which offers a lot of cores with high speed. I know in the
past there were some performance issues with AMD but wonder if things have
changed with the new architecture.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> more cores with freeswitch is almost always better. freeswitch is designed
> to be highly multi-threaded.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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