Hi,

My kannel speed of sending SMS is varying randomly. Over the past 12 months,
I have observed very carefully about the factors affecting the speed. Let me
share the important points with you:

- I have 20 different SMSC connections with one single operator
- All connections have individual speed = 20 message/sec
- My kannel config is following: BBOX <-> SQLBOX <-> SMSBOX <-> Application
- Over different times, SMS bulk gets different overall processing speed. I
checked network conditions as well as SMSC state, both have no issues.
- Now for the same campaigns, I observe following difference in kannel
monitoring window:

When I am getting perfect speed, following line carries a lot of queued
messages in SENT ONLY (kannel monitoring window):

SMS: received 1427 (0 queued), sent 71000 (308 queued), store size -1
SMS: inbound (2.50,0.59,0.80) msg/sec, outbound (132.31,24.39,30.65) msg/sec

Also in individual SMSC connection threads, I see SMS queued on every
thread:

*90101*[90101]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90101:90101 (online 3866s, rcvd: sms 40 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 1874 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 1200 msgs)
*90102*[90102]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90102:90102 (online 3866s, rcvd: sms 35 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 1943 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 1148 msgs)
*90103*[90103]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90103:90103 (online 3866s, rcvd: sms 28 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 1936 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 1320 msgs)

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On the contrary, when I am not getting good speed, following observations I
can make on same window:

SMS: received 149 (0 queued), sent 3702 (0 queued), store size -1
SMS: inbound (0.10,0.02,0.04) msg/sec, outbound (17.27,17.67,19.06) msg/sec

*90101*[90101]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90101:90101 (online 4229s, rcvd: sms 0 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 2050 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 0 msgs)
*90102*[90102]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90102:90102 (online 4229s, rcvd: sms 0 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 2083 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 0 msgs)
*90103*[90103]    SMPP:x.x.x.x:y/y:90103:90103 (online 4229s, rcvd: sms 0 /
dlr 0, sent: sms 2112 / dlr 0, failed 0, queued 0 msgs)

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It seems that SQLBOX does not push the SMS to bearerbox with constant speed.
Although more speed is available with SMSC connections, still I dont see
kannel achieving high speed unless I see queued messages in SMSC
connections.

Can someone support my hypothesis? How to speed up SQLBOX's pushing of SMS
to BBOX?

Regards,
Hamza

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