Thanks, dude.  Excellent information on this list, as per usual.  Now if I 
could 
just get the clock on the motherboard fixed. Seems like its losing its settings 
a lot but the battery looks OK.  I think I have ntpd working OK in its place.

Peter M.

> There are definite benefits to a dual/multi CPU machine. The actual asterisk 
> program isn't multi 
> threaded so it won't utilize more then one but, when other processes kick off 
> like transcoding, 
> festival, comedian the OS will utilize the other CPU(s) to distribute the 
> load. SO there is a definite 
> benefit just not as much as one would totally want. 
> 
> The only time there is no benefit is when you have no transcoding and only 
> the core asterisk 
> process running. But this is highly unusual.
> 
> Mike
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
>     *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
>     So running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a dual processor P2 333 system is still a 
> waste of 
>     processing power?  CentOS does recognize both processors and loads the 
>     SMP kernel. Is there any benefit at all?
>     
>     Peter M.
>     
>       
>     Maybe crazy enough that it will actually work. It amazes me sometimes
>     what ideas u come up with!! Some related news:
>     
>     1) IAX is multithreaded in head now, so should work better on dual
>     processors than SIP, unless you're using the "other" asterisk sip
>     stack. Also,  a side benefit, silence suppression on IAX will probably
>     come soon.
>     
>     On 3/2/06, Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         
>     Let me run something that's been floating about in my noggin by everyone:
>     
>     Given that Asterisk does not make use of dual core CPUs or dual 
> processors,
>     I was contemplating whether running Asterisk in two (or more) VMWare
>     sessions on a system might actually allow for more total performance. For
>     example, set up one VM to handle incoming lines, echo cancellation and all
>     sets, and then set up the other VM to handle VoIP, including transcoding.
>     
>     A bit kludgy, to be sure, but would VMWare allow for both cores/CPUs to be
>     more fully utilized?
>     
>     Very possibly not practical, but it's been floating about my head for a 
> bit
>     and I figured I'd send it out into the ether to see what thoughts might 
> come
>     back.
>     
>     So . . . thoughts?
>     
>     Jim.

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