[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Vlad, > > on defunct: > ----------- > you're right, it's the way daemons and backgrounding is done, and > solves the "defunct" issue. So, the ideal bug fix. > > I have some problems though with the final result we get, but those > are not breaking to use this solution now: > > 1. to execute a (small) unix program, we will use "fork - fork - > system", that gives three process creations instead of one (but we > already had two in the code;-), it's certainly not optimal/efficient, > but computers are fast with a lot of resources these days. > > 2. making an orphan of the final child process gives them ppid=1, > making tools like pstree and pkill fail to identify the correct child > processes. When running multiple instances of sipp (as I do), it might > give problems to handle all processes hanging around (cleanup when > things don't go like you expected). Ok. Not an ideal situation, but better... > > Olivier, > > on IP impairments: > ----------------- > > I noticed you proposing NISTNET as impairment generator on linux, but > if my info is correct, most people nowadays have switched to NETEM, > which is integrated in the standard linux kernel (you might have to > activate it when compiling). Netem is only one of the tools available > in a more general scheme, which also support chaining with packet > classifiers, queues and shapers. Very powerfull, I only used the basic > impairments until now (per direction drop, duplicate, delay/jitter).
Thanks! I didn't know about NETEM, I'll definitely have a look. Would you like to add some info on the specific usage of NETEM in the context of SIP+RTP on SIPp's wiki? (http://sipp.sourceforge.net/wiki/) -- Olivier HP OpenCall Software http://www.hp.com/go/opencall/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sipp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sipp-users
