"Olle E. Johansson" <o...@edvina.net> writes: > Imaging my surprise this Monday when I installed a plain old Asterisk > 1.4 on a new HP server, a DL380 G6, and could run in circles around > the old IBM servers.
The G6 series is pure magic for everything I've let it touch network-wise. I have three guesses as to why: 1) Lots and lots of bandwidth between CPU and I/O, plus built-in memory controller so any packet copying runs wicked fast. 2) MSI-X seems to really help, at least when combined with modern ethernet chipsets (the original PRO/1000 is looking a bit dated now, but more modern PRO/1000 should still be a good choice). 3) Multi-queue NIC. This should REALLY help when you have lots of cores and CPU threads. Depends on fairly new kernels. I'm not sure which is the answer though. /Benny _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
