Hi Carlos, i hope you are doing fine :-) You may run into troubles, if your timer process takes too long; so you might consider using a separate process for "expensive" operations, maybe you want to look at the nathelper module, which does the trick.
Kind regards, Carsten 2013/2/18 Carlos Ruiz Díaz <[email protected]>: > Hello list, > > I have a custom made module which uses a timer to monitor some statuses in a > period of 1 second. Inside the function there's a loop that iterates over a > table that can contain several hundreds of items and using each of them to > perform some arithmetical operations. > > Under certain conditions, the number of items can grow to a few thousands in > really exceptional cases and I believe this situation is causing Kamailio's > slow timer process to consume more than 90% of CPU hanging up the other > group of processes. > > My questions are: > > - What is the best way to perform a repetitive task such as a loop in a > timely basis taking in consideration a precision of at least 5 seconds? I'm > currently registering a function using register_timer() call. > > - Can a loop that takes more than 1 second to complete be causing this > extremely high CPU consumption? > > Below is a copy of the top command when the event occurred: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 22969 root 20 0 2140m 16m 14m R 98.8 0.1 7:22.03 kamailio > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Carlos > http://caruizdiaz.com > +595981146623 > > _______________________________________________ > sr-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-dev > -- Carsten Bock CEO (Geschäftsführer) ============================================================= Visit us on the Kamailio World 2013, 16./17. April 2013 => http://conference.kamailio.com/k01/ See you there! ============================================================= ng-voice GmbH Schomburgstr. 80 D-22767 Hamburg / Germany http://www.ng-voice.com mailto:[email protected] Office +49 40 34927219 Fax +49 40 34927220 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Registergericht: Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 120189 Geschäftsführer: Carsten Bock Ust-ID: DE279344284 Hier finden Sie unsere handelsrechtlichen Pflichtangaben: http://www.ng-voice.com/imprint/ _______________________________________________ sr-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-dev
