Boulkroune, Olivier (Non-HP:Atos Origin) wrote:

Hello Olivier,

> As the way sipp computes its statistics has been enhanced, may I ask you
> if you still encounter the same problem with the 2.0 version ?

Currently the setup we used for testing has been retired and I can't
immediately rerun the tests.  But I'll see if I can find a spare moment
in the coming two weeks to rerun a similar test.

I'll reply in this test as soon as I have the results.

Greetings,
Bruno


> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:22:47 +0100
> From: Bruno Van Den Bossche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Sipp-users] Accuracy of time-measurements by SIPp
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
> 
> Hallo all,
> 
> As we recently took up some SIP-performance testing again and since our
> tests in the past the -trace_rtt option was added, we compared the
> measurement results obtained using three different methods:
> 
> -trace_stat option which prints out global statistics about all calls.
> -trace_rtt which prints out more detailed statistics about each
> individual call
> - a network capture using Wireshark
> 
> Our test-setup was the following:
> - switched network
> - dual core intel machines running at 2.8Ghz
> - Read Hat Linux Enterprise Edition installed
> - a call rate of 100 caps, 2 SIPp's directly communicating, UDP
> - a slightly modified uac and uas scenario: actually the scenario's are
> the default, but we increased the response-time repartition and
> call-lenght repartition granularity to 1 ms
> (<ResponseTimeRepartition value="1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,...,300/>)
> 
> The measured results are as follows:
> trace_stat:
>       <1 : 19606
>       <2 : 2559
>       <3 : 1
>       <4 : 1
>       (average: 0.615)
>               [ (19606*0.5 + 2559*1.5 + 2.5 + 3.5)/22167]
> 
> trace_rtt:
>       <1 : 0
>       <2 : 6948
>       <3 : 15207
>       <4 : 10
>       <5 : 1
>       <6 : 1
>       average: 2.187
> 
> pcap:
>       <1 : 22043
>       <2 : 3
>       <3 : 10
>       <4 : 111
>       average: 0.729
> 
> So we notice a very big difference between the output of -trace_stat and
> -trace_rtt.  The output from the Wireshark trace and -trace_stat seems
> to be more in line.  Especially considering there is already some
> processing done by the time SIPp gets its hands on the packet.
> 
> Is this an expected result?  The difference between the -trace_rtt
> output and trace_stat seems very large.  Although I initially expected
> that the trace_rtt output would allow us to get more detailed diagnostic
> results.
> 
> Another odd result is that although Wireshark reports 111 messages to
> arrive later than 3ms, nor trace_rtt nor -trace_stat seem to detect
> this.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this behavior? And is it to be expected or do
> you think it can be fixed?
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Bruno
> 


-- 
Bruno Van Den Bossche
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ibcn.intec.UGent.be

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