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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Dave Foxcroft wrote: > > >> tom wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried using VOIP with a netbook - I mean a nice low power >>> machine not one that is designed to run Windoze? >>> Tom te tom te tom >>> >>> >> I have asterisk running on a dell d600 laptop - 1.5Ghz mobile centrino >> with 512MB ram that has a broken screen - disconnected the screen, >> installed and setup * and it has been running my phones for the last 4 >> years. >> >> I have it connected to the PSTN via a Sipura SPA3000 and have a Linksys >> VoIP router with 2 normal phones connected, a SIP gateway(again with a >> couple of normal phones connected) and a couple of SIP hard phones, all >> connected on a dedicated VLAN - just goes to show you dont need a high >> end 'server' to run asterisk. >> > > Well.... Because I sell them, doing proper tests and benchmarks is > something I've done a lot of... > > A 500Mhz Geode system sucking a massive 5 watts can handle 85 concurrent > VoIP calls at a rate of 10 a second, and still have processing power left > over to run the web/apache/php GUI thing..... (And it does it in what's > effectively 128 MB of RAM too) > > Your 1.5 GHz laptop ought to be able to do about 250 concurrent calls (My > 1GHz VIAs stop at about 200). The limit becomes kernel efficiency in terms > of context switching and it's ability to handle data to/from external > sources via the PCI bus. (Each VoIP channel runs at 50 packets per second > each way - those pps soon mount up!) > > Hm. I have an old old laptop that runs at 200Mhz - one day when I'm bored > I might just run asterisk up on it. Oddly enough it too has a broken > screen! > > Gordon > Cheers for the info Gordon, I have never needed to load it with anywhere near 250 concurrent calls but it has happily handled several calls ( I also use Voipgate and tesco internetphone - both IAX ) I have a few 200 Mhz geode based thin clients (neoware capio 508's) - they only have 64 MB of ram but I might see if I can whack some more in and see how asterisk runs on them Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html