# Highest priority to Asterisk?

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [January 30, 2006, 10:45am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021 "2006-01-30T10:45:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gangaraju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gangaraju](https://community.asterisk.org/u/gangaraju)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:45am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021/1 "2006-01-30T10:45:08Z")

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Hi  
i’m a newbe to asterisk.  
I working with asterisk on my telecom application.i installed asterisk 1.2.2 on RHE 4.  
It installed successfully and routing calls. But parallelly when i access mozilla or any other application, the performance of asterisk has been getting down.  
i think you understood me.  
Can anyone tell me how could i make my asterisk should run as highest priority task and CPU should dedicated to it.  
I’m i implement real-time performance to my kernel with any rea-time approches like RTAI or RTLinux.  
Or  
i’m i make any modifications in my current kernel(scheduler) to give dedicated time to asterisk.

Any help appreciated.

Regards,  
Gangaraju

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021/2 "2006-01-30T12:00:01Z")

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i’m not going to go into how to give more processor time to Asterisk (mainly 'cos i have no idea 😃), but i will say this …

if you’re serious about using Asterisk at your PBX platform, then you won’t be using at as a workstation, and you certainly won’t be using X on it.

a PBX tends to be a mission-critical platform. the money involved in giving it a dedicated box is a fraction of the cost of dealing with poor performance, angry users and a furious CEO.

to be quite honest, this applies at home too, unless you’re the only user.

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**Author:** ![gangaraju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gangaraju](https://community.asterisk.org/u/gangaraju)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021/3 "2006-01-30T12:14:54Z")

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hi baconbuttie,  
Even i’m not using X as you suggested.  
regards,  
gangaraju

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/highest-priority-to-asterisk/4021/4 "2006-01-30T12:19:12Z")

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> [@gangaraju](#):
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> Even i’m not using X as you suggested.

then ignore the bit about X 😊 not using it as a workstation still stands though 😉

what are the specs of your box ?