<p>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.</p>
<p>Brian Foster<br>
Endigo Computer LLC</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 21, 2012 10:22 AM, "Avi Marcus" <<a href="mailto:avi@avimarcus.net">avi@avimarcus.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">To clarify: FreeSWITCH doesn't need so much resources such that it needs to run standalone.<div><br><div>However, as with virtualization... voip calls are meant to be real time and require real time processing. </div>
<div>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.</div><div>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.</div>
<div><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">-Avi</span></span></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Robert-IPhone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rhuddleston@gmail.com" target="_blank">rhuddleston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would never share roles with voip. Unless you are running a 2 line office ;)<br>
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On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Bzzz <<a href="mailto:lazyvirus@gmx.com" target="_blank">lazyvirus@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:14:15 -0400<br>
> Brian Foster <<a href="mailto:bdfoster@endigotech.com" target="_blank">bdfoster@endigotech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I would like to suggest that you should be doing HA and<br>
>> load balancing between atleast two servers when dealing with that<br>
>> kind of traffic. Its hard for me to justify putting all that<br>
>> traffic on one server. Just food for thought. Depending on how<br>
>> many calls you want to risk losing at any given time, your machine<br>
>> specs might be much lower than expected.<br>
><br>
> I hijack (a bit) this thread: with much lower needs than Alex (let's<br>
> say for an average size SME's PBX), shall FS perform well on a<br>
> machine that is already a svr for other things (lets says, e-mail,<br>
> IM, files (samba), etc, or does it need to be on a stand alone?<br>
> (in any case w/ its own Ethernet I/F)<br>
><br>
> JY<br>
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