> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steven Critchfield > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Tuning the Linux kernel? > > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 13:03, Scott Stingel wrote: > > Hi all- > > > > It's often mentioned here that recompiling the Linux kernel > may improve the > > performance of asterisk. > > > > My question is: Does re-compiling the kernel have any > effect if there are > > no changes to the configuration? > > > > What parameters will typically improve performance? > > > > Thanks for any insight! > > Reduce unnecessary modules and drivers being built in. The > kernel is not > able to swap itself out of memory and therefore the smaller > footprint it > has the better. > > Make sure to select and optimize for your CPU. > > There are a few others you can find from the menuconfig help system. > > Another trick to look into is cutting down of the asterisk > modules that > are loaded. Our newly deployed asterisk machine is not going to do any > IVR, and is only going to do IAX2 traffic. Because of this I > was able to > trim down a lot of the modules being loaded by asterisk and decrease > it's memory footprint. > > This also seems to reduce startup time, as well as stripping down all > unused sections of the configs. > > I know this isn't always practical for all people to do, but we wanted > to squeeze as much as we could out of this machine. > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Ok thanks. Following up on your suggestion to remove unnecessary asterisk modules, are there any that come to mind that consume CPU horsepower when not in use? Or is it just a memory issue? My scenario (for my current customers anyway) is the opposite of yours - I'm doing IVR only! Cheers Scott Stingel _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
