On 10/21/09, David Backeberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Robin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your response. > > The hardware I have now is not sufficient to set up a ramdisk (just 4 > gb)... > > But memory is rather cheap nowadays. If i'd buf up the server with 8 extra > > gigs for use as a ramdrive, do you think that might be enough to record > > between 30-60 simultanious streams? Or should it be way more? > > > I'm doing ramdisk recordings of about the same number of streams > you're talking, in 4GB. > I move out completed recordings once every 15 minutes or so via NFS, > and as such, I never use very much of the ramdisk. There's no rule > that says you have to use the whole 4GB of ram for recordings. I'm > probably staying below 100MB or so. Strictly speaking, I'm using both > ramdisk and external server, but the external server is just a > centralized system with larger disks. > > However, I know that this arrangement isn't working for my load which > is about to double again, so I'm upgrading to better hardware (and > maintaining the status quo with my asterisk arrangement) > > If you read every single title of asterisk-users in the last few > months, you'll find a similar discussion on this topic which went > through the pros and cons of ramdisk versus centralized server. > > Somebody at that time mentioned particular names of programs that can > do the centralized recordings by doing network hardware level > replication and picking off the SIP packets. I've never done this, but > if you find that mailing list thread you'll be able to find names of > people who say they've done that.
We have a few clients that use Oreka(from OrecX) that does network-based SIP packet-capture recording. It works very well on their multi-server setups and the core of Oreka is Open Source. MATT--- _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
