[rescue] Asterisk PBX (WAS) SMP on intel wasteful?

[James Sharp]

> I was just furthering the `linux under load' comments. I don't belive a PC
> running Asterisk will be able to take a massive load with good performance
> under load. Linux's VM doesn't handle load the same as Solaris's. FreeBSD
> is an improvement, but not over Sol8. Not when you're talking about flat
> out overloading a machine from no load and back again. FreeBSD probably
> holds it's own (I have great faith in it), but Sol8 is proven under heavy
> load.

That's why I'm running Asterisk on an alphaserver DS-10.  What, you want
to run an entire city off one machine with a bunch of T1 cards?  No
problem.