[SR-Users] rtpproxy virtual or physical machine

[Alex Balashov]

On 05/01/2013 07:44 AM, Grant Bagdasarian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I understand that machines processing RTP are recommended to be physical
> machines. Does the same apply for machines just proxy’ing RTP?
>
> Also, after how many RTP session would you start noticing issues with
> RTP when using rtpproxy on a virtual VMware machine?

There is no firm answer to that, but there seems to be widespread 
consensus that something like 'rtpproxy', especially being a user space 
process, benefits from access to native hardware, versus the jittery and 
unreliable intermediated I/O scheduling and contention inside a VM 
environment.

-- Alex

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