[Freeswitch-users] Estimating Call Capacity

Wed Oct 28 14:55:17 PDT 2009

That's really nice looking software.   Thanks for the pointer.

Cliff

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 16:06 -0400, Gregory Boehnlein wrote:
> I'm fond of Vqmanager from ManagEngine. It is a passive SIP monitor. I.E.
> you mirror the ports that your FS or Asterisk boxes, and VQmanager sniffs
> the mirrors, tracking all sorts of good data.
> 
> You can install it on a Centos box, and get a free trial.
> 
> http://www.manageengine.com/products/vqmanager/index.html
> 
> What is really cool is that it actually monitors the RTP/RTCP as well as all
> of the SIP headers and archives the calls, so you can look at calls from
> several days ago and see EXACTLY what happened on them. I have used this
> extensively to pinpoint bad Level 3 and X/O media gateways.. Much better
> than trying to sniff packets in real-time and MAYBE catch a problem..
> 
> I've also used it to find/fix several SIP issues w/ odd endpoints.. Very
> easy to see..
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-
> > users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Cliff Wells
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:52 PM
> > To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Estimating Call Capacity
> > 
> > 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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