[Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch vs. Asterisk speed on ARM

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:15:13PM -0300, Rogelio Perez wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm working on a PBX project for the Sheevaplug ARM based computer,  
> with the following specs: CPU 1.2 GHz, 512MB DDR2, no FPU.
> So far I've found a big difference between Freeswitch and Asterisk  
> performance times.
> This is a comparison of the time it takes them to perform different  
> actions:
> 
> startup Freeswitch:			3 min.
> startup Asterisk:			2 sec.
> 
> call extension Freeswitch:	6 sec.
> call extension Asterisk:		0 sec.
> 
> shutdown Freeswitch:		6.5 sec
> shutdown Asterisk:			0 sec.
> 
> reload config Freeswitch: 	1 sec.
> reload config Asterisk:		1 sec.
> 
> Both were built from sources natively (no cross-compiling), and they  
> use the default startup configurations.
> I have managed to lower the Freeswitch times by disabling most of the  
> modules and recompiling, but it is still far away from Asterisk (i.e.  
> FS startup time 2.5 min).
> 
> 1. Is there any way to further improve Freeswitch performance for the  
> ARM architecture?
> 2. Can this be related to the lack of a FPU (the Sheevalug emulates  
> the floating point operations).
> 3. On the startup I see this error repeated many times: [ERR]  
> switch_core_sqldb.c:95 SQL ERR [database is locked]. Can this be  
> related?
>

Try making where freeswitch stores it's sqlite databases
/usr/local/freeswitch/db (by default) a ramdisk. I've had this vastly
improve FS performance on embedded devices.

Andrew