[Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch memory issue/question

Wed Apr 14 11:34:24 PDT 2010

1 hint,

you need enough ram to hold on to every dialog for several minutes even
after the call has ended per the RFC so you will see a large increase in
memory if you send millions of calls at the box.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Phillip Jones <pjintheusa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Henry,
>
> Realistically - what is your expected traffic? i.e. how big a community are
> you building this system for? In your test - now many cps where you hitting
> FS with?
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:
>
>>  Henry Huang,
>>
>> with 10 millions of invites I'm sure you have at least $175 to pay
>> to FS to help you !! :D
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>
>> *To:* freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:19 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch memory issue/question
>>
>> We have a policy against load testing issues on this mailing list.
>>
>> What you are doing is most likely doing something wrong and we don't have
>> time to debug it for you.
>> We get way too many requests like this and there is a 99% result in
>> proving user error and improper load testing.
>>
>> You can consider paid support from FreeSWITCH Solutions LLC for $175/hr
>> per consultant and an ongoing support contract for $10k/yr to deal with
>> business related bugfixing and support.
>>
>> The free help we give here is based on a community shared resource pool
>> and we simply do not have enough to go around helping people with your type
>> of issue.  Please feel free to report bugs if you can pinpoint one using a
>> more realistic use case that does not involve DDosing your box with 10
>> million invites.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Henry Huang <b_ball_henry at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear developers:
>>>
>>> Our product is close to sipping stage and we are doing stress tests on FS
>>> servers. We have now hit a dead end with our test results and running out of
>>> ideas. And the result is pointing to memory issues. We have ran our test on
>>> both FS 1.0.4 and 1.0.6 trunk with SIPP to do simply invite tests.
>>>
>>> Here is the test senario:
>>>
>>> Send 10,000,000 invites to our test server running FS 1.0.6 with fixed
>>> amount of invites per second. The xml dialplan simply bridge the call to an
>>> unknown/unregistered user like so (user/500001) and therefore FS would hang
>>> up once it doesn't find the user. When running the test, FS is steady, but
>>> the memory usage slowly piles up over time. The memory keeps adding up till
>>> it hit the ceiling, then FS crash. I don't understand what could be holding
>>> the memory and not releasing it since we are not doing anything special and
>>> the calls are not being answered. And I forgot to mention, through out the
>>> whole test, the CPU usage stays at about 35% .
>>>
>>> Please help
>>>
>>>
>>> Besides FS native test, we have created our own application module to run
>>> the same test. The app is written in C and basically what we did is to point
>>> the xml dialplan to the custom app. Inside our app , we are simply doing the
>>> same kind of test as the xml dialplan would do. The only thing we did for
>>> the stress test is the following code:
>>>
>>> switch_core_session_execute_application(session, "bridge",
>>> "user/500001");
>>>
>>> Like the xml dialplan test, we are bridging the call to a unregistered
>>> user, so the call would hang up right away if system doesn't find the user.
>>> But the bizarre thing is this - the memory usage is about 7 ~ 8 times as
>>> much as we are running only xml dialplan. This I don't understand. Our app
>>> is calling the native FS C function to bridge the call , why would it use
>>> more memory than the xml dialplan...
>>>
>>> your input would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henry Huang
>>> aka bbhenry
>>>
>>> VoIP & Open Source software Consultant
>>>
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>>
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