[Freeswitch-users] RTP delay > 100ms by performance testing with freeswitch as trancoding device SILK to G711a

[Anthony Minessale]

Hundreds of calls should be no problem.  Thousands start to take some
finesse....

Like Doc says, "roads, where we're going we don't need roads...."


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:23 PM, A E G <all.eforums at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Anthony Minessale
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would be insane to endorse using it in a virtual world.  The support
>> expectations would consume the rest of my life.
>> I try to make the code work well on real boxes and if it works on
>> virtual ones then that's a bonus =D
>>
>> We have good luck with openVZ since its a single real kernel and
>> virtual runtimes but either way we do not recommend it so its a use at
>> your own risk kind of thing.
>>
>
> Yup agree and acknowledge that you wouldn't endorse or offer to support it,
> and nor should you. Simply trying to pick your (and anyone else who wants to
> chime in) brain on the topic. Totally PoC'ing it at my own risk :)
>
> So, in that spirit, just one last message about it. Just like sharing the
> experience with OpenVZ, let's just say that I am insane and I still want to
> try it in a private cloud. Would you say the resource consumption of FS
> (assuming it's just receiving the call, having it routed by a custom routing
> engine via ESL, and switching it) be more than that in the "real" world for
> the same call volume barring any clock sync/skew/jitter issues? Would
> something like Cloudstack on hardware (like the one you recommended earlier)
> with a FS VM with 12 vcpu cores, 24GB RAM and DAS be able to handle
> something like 300-400 concurrent calls or am I out of my mind?
>
> Thx
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:59 PM, A E G <all.eforums at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yup got that, and are you saying the same is applicable and true even if
>> > one
>> > was to try and run FreeSWITCH on a private cloud or in a virtual
>> > environment? assuming of course that those tips would then apply to the
>> > machine on which the Hypervisor will run.
>> >
>> > Just trying to get a handle on whether running FreeSWITCH to do
>> > something
>> > like wholesale or calling card traffic in a purely virtual environment
>> > is /
>> > has proven to work. You probably know the most in terms of all different
>> > environments people are running FS in, and if you (or they) have
>> > pointers
>> > specific to it being run in a virtual environment.
>> >
>> > Thanks so much
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Anthony Minessale
>> > <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Like I said "Really Really Nice Motherboard", as many CPU as
>> >> possible/affordable, and a good chunk of RAM.
>> >> Motherboard is the most important, a cheap motherboard with a ton of
>> >> cores is a waste.
>> >>
>
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