Another solution would be to use a dedicated recording server sniffing RTP and signalling packets in the media path using software such as http://www.oreka.org. Oreka automatically mixes both legs of an RTP conversation to disk and GSM encodes the result in a separate thread so that capture always has priority.
Cheers Henri On 05/04/06, Isaac Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew, thanks for your feedback and advice. > > what I actually experienced was the complete breakdown of Asterisk at > > around 60 concurrent recordings without it (the reality). > > The drive for saving your voice recordings is the same as your OS > (Asterisk)? What do you think that save the voice recordings to a > dedicated drive rather than the one which Asterisk program (OS) locates? > I also think about using GSM format (Monitor(gsm,${CALLFILENAME}, mb)) > rather than WAV, PCM. In this case, it will use more CPU, but I/O of > hard disk is reduced dramatically as you mentioned that it is I/O > bottleneck issue, not CPU (In my case, I want to use P4 Dual core CPU or > extreme edition). In order to reduce the CPU usage, we can have two leg > files mixed after peak time. > > Matt mentioned about fragmented free space. I googled about Linux > defragment topic. People always talk about that Linux doesn't need to > defragment, it can handle it by itself very well. Not sure how true it > is. > > I am looking a solution to record expanding simultaneous calls in the > future in a call centre which accepts calls from our global branches. If > I find the good solution, I definitely post it to the community. > > Cheers, > Isaac Xiao > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users