CPU for FS boxes. High freq.? or more cores? or more cache?
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
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@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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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@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@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
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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--
Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli OpenTelecom.IT cell: +39 347 266 56 18
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
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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@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@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@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
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
--
Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli OpenTelecom.IT cell: +39 347 266 56 18
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Alex Sibyakin | Support Engineer FreeSWITCH Solutions | 17345 Civic Drive #2531 Brookfield, WI 53045 <https://maps.google.com/?q=17345+Civic+Drive+%232531+Brookfield,+WI+53045&entry=gmail&source=g> Email: alex@freeswitch.com Website: https://www.FreeSWITCH.com <https://www.freeswitch.com/> Need commercial support? Contact sales@freeswitch.com for details. _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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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@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@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@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@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
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
--
Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli OpenTelecom.IT cell: +39 347 266 56 18
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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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@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@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@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@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@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
____________________________________________________________ _____________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/ options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
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Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli OpenTelecom.IT cell: +39 347 266 56 18
____________________________________________________________ _____________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Hi Abaci We tend to use Intel-based servers in production and my experience is inline with others. More cores trumps faster cores. For a recent upgrade, I created a load generator on an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.6 GHz). I was comfortably bridging over 4000 parallel calls. It was a simple bridging application and no transcoding, but media was proxied. I’ve actually quite enjoyed the newer AMD CPUs; I’ve had good performance with my virtualisation testing too. Good luck with your testing, Tristan
On 26/01/2018, at 07:47, Abaci B <abaci64@gmail.com> wrote:
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@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@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@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@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@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
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
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Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli OpenTelecom.IT cell: +39 347 266 56 18
_________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com
Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com
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Abaci B
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Adam Raszynski
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Alexey Sibyakin
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Giovanni Maruzzelli
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Joel Serrano
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Ken Rice
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Tristan Dean