On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:34:38AM -0400, Steve Lecomte wrote: > This January 2008 Intel whitepaper does a good job of laying out the facts. > > Software PBX Performance on Intel Multi-Core Platforms - a Study of Asterisk* > http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/318862.pdf > > ...Using several different testing methods, we found that performance > of the Asterisk* PBX application > increased proportionally as more cores were made available to it. > Given that the maximum call capacity > on the 8-core system was almost seven times that of the single core > case, we can conclude such > increases in performance come without significant overhead. In fact, > the increases seem to be almost > linear as each multi-core configuration was tested.
So these new Sun UltraSparc T2 systems with 128 threads in hardware would be just the thing for transcoding up to 128 calls concurrently. See http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t5140/. (That's 128 h/w threads in a 1U rackmount, btw). Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
