On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 14:24, Denis Noctor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there Maxim... I did a test with 8 computers and 2 tablets last night
> (spread across 2 WiFis)... please don’t delete the logs on the OM demo
> server (next)...
>

I just backup the logs


> I will come back to you all with some feedback and pics later tomorrow (if
> that’s okay)... however, for reference... I started the process in the
> public room #7...start time around 8.22pm (12th Nov) (México... 6 hrs
> behind) and end time 9.50pm... (if you want to check the logs) .... the
> short version is that 8 users experienced relatively stable performance.
>

Looking forward to hear the full version :))


> Will give you a more detailed feedback once I deal with a personal issue.
> All the best, Denis.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 11, 2020, at 9:09 PM, Maxim Solodovnik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'll try to answer in one email :)
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 20:32, dww <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> However, Denis, I think your experiment with multiple devices would be
>> valuable as then there is only one browser tab or window with the OM
>> room open as a guest on each device. Perhaps that will make a
>> difference.
>>
>
> yes, this would be better test (even if "fake" camera is used)
>
>
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 08:24 -0500, dww wrote:
>> > Thanks, Denis,
>> >
>> > Back on Oct. 17 Maxim provided the following Bash script to be run on
>> > the machine with a client side browser for the psuedo guest users. (
>> > Use another machine to create the room administratively and send
>> > invitations) This is a far simpler way to stress test the client side
>> > browser.
>> >
>> > Dennis
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > i just have tried the following script
>> > started as `./run10.sh 5`
>> >
>> > everything seems to work, but my CPU was 800% busy (all cores were
>> > 100%
>> > busy)
>> >
>> > without `--use-fake-device-for-media-stream` parameter I had lots of
>> > permission errors due to camera was "captured" by first browser
>> > other have reported "Camera busy" error
>> >
>> >
>> > _HASH_HERE_ - should be replaced with real hash (I have created
>> > endless
>> > invitation hash to the private conference room)
>> >
>> > the script
>> > ===============================================
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> >
>> > i=$1
>> >
>> > if [ -z "${i}" ]; then
>> >   i=30
>> > fi
>> > let "i += 0"
>> >
>> > rm -rf /tmp/delme*
>> >
>> > while ((i--)); do
>> >   #echo "${i}"
>> >   mkdir /tmp/delme${i}
>> >
>> >   #local conference
>> >   chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/tmp/delme${i} --disable-infobars
>> > --no-default-browser-check --allow-insecure-localhost
>> > --use-fake-device-for-media-stream '
>> >
>> https://localhost:5443/openmeetings/hash?invitation=_HASH_HERE_&language=1
>> '
>> > &
>> > done
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 01:53 -0600, Denis Noctor wrote:
>> > > Hi there everyone, this seems to be the “elephant in the room”
>> > > discussion, while there has been a HUGE amount of development and
>> > > progress in OM since March (thank you so much @Maxim) ... there is
>> > > the whole issue of, for example, the number of users per room...
>> > > which seems to be about 5-6 (and maybe even to 7) when pushed to
>> > > the
>> > > limit... with both audio and video being broadcasted from all
>> > > users... and, something else.. if there are simultaneous
>> > > classes/sessions being held on the same server... will this
>> > > restrict
>> > > things even further? Is this an overall limitation
>
>
> Sebastian did some AWS based testing
> And, if i'm not mistaken, the server with 4GB RAM was able to handle at
> least 3 rooms of 5 people
> (5.1.0-SNAPSHOT should behave better than 5.0.1)
>
> to increase the number of rooms you can use cluster
>
>
>> to using a
>> > > browser
>> > > based approach... or should we be taking approach?
>>
>
> well,
> there is "The Limit"
> KMS can handle only certain amount of multimedia connections
> additionally there are other limits:
> - bandwidth
> - CPU
> - RAM
> - open files (network socket is a file)
>
> "The Limit" is something I'm not sure how to deal with (yet)
>
>
>> > >
>> > > It was my intention to test out the OM “demo servers” over the last
>> > > 2
>> > > weeks but will take today off and try to test 10 real device
>> > > connections... with a combination of desktops, laptops, android
>> > > tablets and maybe even the odd iPhone or two.
>>
>
> Apple devices has issues with sound (outgoing)
> I'm still investigating this one
>
>
>> > >
>> > > My million dollar question is... prior to WebRTC and Kurento... was
>> > > it possible to have 5-10 users in a room with audio and video
>> > > working
>> > > seamlessly in previous versions (for example, the old “flash” setup
>> > > (which will be redundant after Christmas... Chrome etc
>> > > notifications)
>> > > and if so, what has changed?
>>
>
> Yes this was possible
> OM_before_5 was based on Red5 media server
> Unfortunately it's open source version has no WebRTC support
>
>
>> > >
>> > > If there is anyone out there that has no problem with user numbers
>> > > (using audio and vid)... exceeding a body of 7-10+, please let us
>> > > know.
>> > >
>> > > In the meantime, I’ll give you my feedback on my tests.
>> > >
>> > > I really appreciate everything that has been done to date.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
>> > >
>> > > Sent from my iPhone
>> > >
>> > > > On Nov 9, 2020, at 4:50 PM, dww <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hello Maxim,
>> > > >
>> > > > A couple of weeks ago there was an email thread about the 5 total
>> > > > users
>> > > > for one room, each user with video/microphone under the
>> > > > Subject: "docker container clustering experiments #1".
>
>
> For whatever reason you love to start new mail threads :))))
>
>
>> In this
>> > > > case
>> > > > it
>> > > > appears the bottleneck is the CPU usage on the client machine
>> > > > with
>> > > > the
>> > > > browser.
>> > > >
>> > > > In a response to Denis Noctor on a similar thread you mentioned
>> > > > to
>> > > > try
>> > > > the following:
>> > > >
>> > > > "please check allowed amount of opened files for the user who
>> > > > starts
>> > > > OM/KMS/TURN
>> > > > increasing it might help"
>> > > >
>> > > > Might this help with the issue we discussed? Where approximately
>> > > > do
>> > > > I
>> > > > set the allowed amount of opened files?
>>
>
> KMS seems to drop connections when there is not enough files
> (network socket is a file)
> you can check the limit for current user using `ulimit -n` (`ulimit -a` to
> see all limits)
>
> to check limit for `nobody` user `su nobody --shell /bin/bash --command
> "ulimit -n"`
>
> to increase the limit i'm changing `/etc/security/limits.conf` file
>
> https://github.com/openmeetings/openmeetings-docker/blob/48b72f4d0f38a0fab2021a0a2e4d6693c61c00be/scripts/om_euser.sh#L35
>
> (seems to work at Ubuntu)
>
>
>
>> > > >
>> > > > Also are there any other things that can be tried to improve this
>> > > > scalability? Are there areas in the code that can be examined to
>> > > > investigate how to improve this?
>>
>
> KMS cluster would be ultimate solution, I guess
>
>
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > Dennis
>> > > >
>> > > >
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Maxim
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Maxim

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