Given the choice between dual core and dual processor, would one work better than the other for FS? Assuming roughly the same speed. Or would it not really have a measurable difference assuming same speed and both Intel?
Anthony Minessale wrote: > Which of the 2 machines has the load issue? You said it was one box > calling the other. > > You have 2 major things against you, single CPU and AMD, but you should > at least be able to get in the vicinity of 800-1000 calls on a box like > that. > > Are you calling the default 9999? It's not really an appropriate > extension for load testing. > On the terminating box you should set up a manual extension that is the > first one in the dial plan > to play a wav file from preferably a ram disk or /tmp > > If you do plan on using this in production accept nothing less than a > multi-core intel machine with at least 4 cores, the more cores the > better because that parallel processing is where FS gets it's atvantage. > > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:56 AM, rod <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear list, > > I've been playing with freeswitch for some time (2 months) and the fact > is that I'm very pleased with the functionnalities of this software. > > I'd like to use FS as a SBC handling media and I'm doing some tests with > sipp to load the machine but I'm unable to bridge more than 60 calls > without seeing the CPU being loaded at 100%. I'm sure something is going > wrong with my setup but I'm unable to see what. > > The test machine has the following specs: > Athlon XP 3500+ with 2GB of memory (I know this is not a high end > machine :p) > > Freeswitch:/opt/freeswitch/log# cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 15 > model : 95 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 2199.973 > cache size : 512 KB > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt > rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic > cr8_legacy > bogomips : 4402.97 > TLB size : 1024 4K pages > clflush size : 64 > cache_alignment : 64 > address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc > > I installed FS on a fresh debian 64: > Linux Freeswitch 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I set the ulimit parameters like those on the website: > freeswi...@internal> ... > Freeswitch:/opt/free-svn/bin# ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > scheduling priority (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > pending signals (-i) unlimited > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 999999 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) unlimited > real-time priority (-r) 0 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 244 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) unlimited > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > file locks (-x) unlimited > > > My network setup is the following: > > SIPP machine (10.10.10.1/24)----------------vlan > <http://10.10.10.1/24%29----------------vlan> 55 > ----------(10.10.10.254/24 <http://10.10.10.254/24>) FS > (10.10.20.254/24)-------------- > <http://10.10.20.254/24%29--------------> vlan56 > -------------------(10.10.20.100/24 <http://10.10.20.100/24>) OTHER > STOCK FS > > > I launched sipp with: > sipp -sn uac_pcap -s 9999 -r 10 -l 80 -d 60000 -mi 10.10.10.1 -i > 10.10.10.1 -mp 25000 10.10.10.254:5060 <http://10.10.10.254:5060> > > The dialplan on FS is very simple: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <!-- http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Dialplan_XML --> > <include> > <context name="default"> > > <extension name="hold_music_bridge"> > <condition field="destination_number" expression="^9999$"> > <action application="answer"/> > <action application="bridge" > data="sofia/external/[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"/> > </condition> > </extension> > </context> > > </include> > > FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.trunk (11560M) Started. > Crash Protection [Disabled] > Max Sessions[1000] > Session Rate[100] > SQL [Enabled] > > > The test is very simple: sipp dial 9999 that matches in my FS dialplan > and this is bridged to an other FS machine playing music on hold. > When I launch "top" I see after 30 to 40 s that FS consumes all the CPU > ressources (with a mean of 50-60 % before), with 80 calls. > When I set 70 calls, I have to wait 70-80 s before seeing the same > issue. > > Presence is set to false on the 2 profile. > > I have the same issue with FS 1.0.2 that' s why I tried FS 11560. > > When I use the FS machine as a router to test the packet per second > performance, I'm reaching 100Mbps with 8000pps in each direction (from > vlan 55 to vlan56) with less than 12% CPU. So that I don't think there's > an issue with the network. > > Here is an "mpstat -P ALL 1" to show you what's happening suddenly with > 70 bridge calls: > 12:31:26 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft > %steal %idle intr/s > 12:31:27 all 3,00 0,00 3,00 0,00 1,00 4,00 > 0,00 89,00 6241,00 > 12:31:27 0 3,00 0,00 3,00 0,00 1,00 4,00 > 0,00 89,00 6241,00 > > 12:31:27 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft > %steal %idle intr/s > 12:31:28 all 14,14 0,00 56,57 0,00 2,02 5,05 > 0,00 22,22 6035,35 > 12:31:28 0 14,14 0,00 56,57 0,00 2,02 5,05 > 0,00 22,22 6035,35 > > 12:31:28 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft > %steal %idle intr/s > 12:31:29 all 24,75 0,00 67,33 0,00 0,99 6,93 > 0,00 0,00 5483,17 > 12:31:29 0 24,75 0,00 67,33 0,00 0,99 6,93 > 0,00 0,00 5483,17 > > > The CPU is going from 89% idle to 0% in less than 2 seconds. > > I know that I don't have to expect too much from this kind of hardware, > but it seems strange that the CPU power vanished so suddenly. > > Thanks a lot for the guys that have read this long mail :p > > kind regards, > rod > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeswitch-users mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > > > > > -- > Anthony Minessale II > > FreeSWITCH http://www.freeswitch.org/ > ClueCon http://www.cluecon.com/ > > AIM: anthm > MSN:[email protected] > <mailto:msn%[email protected]> > GTALK/JABBER/PAYPAL:[email protected] > <mailto:paypal%[email protected]> > IRC: irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> #freeswitch > > FreeSWITCH Developer Conference > sip:[email protected] > <mailto:sip%[email protected]> > iax:[email protected]/888 > <http://iax:[email protected]/888> > googletalk:[email protected] > <mailto:googletalk%3aconf%[email protected]> > pstn:213-799-1400 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freeswitch-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
