[Freeswitch-users] Estimating Call Capacity

[Shelby Ramsey]

Cliff,

Try using xml_rpc ... status or show channels will give you what you need.

SDR

Cliff Wells wrote:
> A little off-topic, but since call-capacity is the subject, what are
> people using to analyze their CDR's to discover this?   I'm handling
> about 30k calls per day but have only a bandwidth-based guesstimate of
> the peak number of concurrent calls I'm handling.
>
> If there's an open source solution, I'd appreciate a pointer.
>
> Regards,
> Cliff
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:01 -0400, Eliot Gable wrote:
>   
>> Although, FYI, I just benchmarked mod_xml_curl on a separate web app
>> server from FS with FS on a Dell R710 with their current best
>> processor option (Intel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz with 8-cores total) and 32
>> GB memory. The web app server is less than half the power of the R710.
>> I maxed the web app server at 300 calls per second (both setting up
>> and tearing down) and the R710 running FS was 65% idle. No audio was
>> being proxied through FS, though. If I were running the web app server
>> on an equivalent R710, they probably would have been on-par with each
>> other in performance. Extrapolating, I expect that in such a case I
>> should be able to get at least 650 CPS out of FS, though for
>> production I would probably limit it to 400 CPS or less so I leave
>> room for miscellaneous tasks. I maxed out the R710 at over 16,000
>> simultaneous calls (again, no audio proxying) but the only reason I
>> couldn't do more was because I hit some sort of thread creation limit
>> in Linux. There was about 17 GB of memory used for this many calls.
>> This should give you some ballpark idea of what you can accomplish
>> with FS.
>>
>> At some point, I will track down and resolve the thread creation
>> issue, at which time I believe call limits will be limited either by a
>> complex combination of available memory, the speed of the processor,
>> the cost of thread context switching, calls per second setup rate, and
>> call duration.
>>
>> --
>> Eliot Gable
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>> From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni Maruzzelli
>>>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:56 PM
>>>
>>> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Estimating Call Capacity
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Vinuth Madinur
>>>
>>> <vinuth.madinur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Here are a few benchmarks that I had stumbled upon.
>>>>         
>>>> http://wiki.voiceworks.pl/display/~pawel/FreeSwitch+performance+on+SUN+x2200+M2
>>>>         
>>>
>>> Please remember NO benchmarks are endorsed by the FS community or
>>>
>>> developers, because there are just too many variables, and a simple
>>>
>>> figure is just useful for marketing hype, not for real dimensioning.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You MUST do your own benchmarking, so you get an idea about how to
>>>
>>> dimension for your own use case and hardware.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>         
>>>> Vinuth.
>>>>         
>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I highly doubt it... You can wait for someone to post their results
>>>>>           
>>>>> but in the end you'll have to do your own load testing because not
>>>>>           
>>>>> everyone's numbers will jive with your use case.  Which is the reason
>>>>>           
>>>>> the project never posts or endorses a set call count.
>>>>>           
>>>>> /b
>>>>>           
>>>>> On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Are there any benchmarking test results available publicly?
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