[Freeswitch-users] mod_xml_curl creating too many open files

Anthony Minessale anthony.minessale at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 00:28:53 MSK 2013


There are for sure some important performance issues between 1.2.8 and
latest stable.
There even more in master.


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Tim St. Pierre <
fs-list at communicatefreely.net> wrote:

> I thought that too, but I ran a ping test against the machine (to that
> interface) when it happened.  It didn't lose a single packet.
>
> -Tim
>
> On 13-12-13 04:19 PM, Lloyd Aloysius wrote:
> > Tim
> >
> > I would first check the connectivity
> >
> > Switch ports?
> >
> > Lloyd
> >
> > On Dec 13, 2013 4:14 PM, "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]"
> > <cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk
> > <mailto:cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'll be on the FS conference call for the next 30 mins if you want
> >     to ask any questions about this btw.
> >
> >     Cal
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
> >     <cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk
> >     <mailto:cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Tim St. Pierre
> >         <fs-list at communicatefreely.net
> >         <mailto:fs-list at communicatefreely.net>> wrote:
> >
> >             Hello,
> >
> >             I'm having a problem where FS seems to exhaust it's open
> >             file limit
> >             after about 7 hours of operation.  Once this happens, the
> >             database and
> >             curl connections no longer function, and I usually lose the
> >             ability to
> >             get a CLI connection.  Existing calls usually stay up, until
> >             I kill -9
> >             and launch again.
> >
> >             I'm using FreeSWITCH Version
> >             1.2.8+git~20130403T221701Z~79be96aa8e
> >             on Centos 2.6.18-348.el5
> >
> >             This machine had been running solid for at least 90 days
> >             without a hitch
> >             - I had almost hit 500K sessions, when this started
> >             happening two days
> >             ago.  I have changed very little on the machine - the odd
> >             dialplan
> >             route, and nothing that seems to coincide with that time.
> >
> >
> >             It looks like CURL is not closing sockets properly, as
> >             netstat shows
> >             between 2000 - 4000 http connections in TIME_WAIT state.
> >              The number
> >             slowly creeps up, then down a little, then up some more
> >             until it all
> >             comes crashing down.
> >
> >
> >         Can you confirm if your web server is responding to the requests?
> >
> >         One possible explanation is this spike in traffic caused
> >         excessive requests which your web server could not handle, and
> >         thus you hit the ulimit.
> >
> >         You could increase the ulimit (or set it to unlimited) as per;
> >
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/
> >
> >         However, if your web server is struggling to keep up with the
> >         work load then increasing the max open files will just make the
> >         problem worse. Increasing is fine, as long as your web server
> >         can keep up with the load, otherwise it will just continue to
> >         snowball.
> >
> >         Try installing some profiling tools on your web server to
> >         monitor the stats, you can use something like New Relic or
> >         AppNeta for this, or even just change your access log to output
> >         the loading/response times into your access log, then look for
> >         high response times.
> >
> >         You can also tweak kernel TCP stack settings as per;
> >
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-command-forcibly-close-socket-ports-in-time_wait-state/
> >
> >         Hope this helps
> >
> >
> >
> >             ls /proc/15742/fd|wc -l currently returns about 400.  It was
> >             300 an hour
> >             ago.  When it gets to 1024, I'm going to have to restart
> again.
> >
> >             Any suggestions as to where I should look?
> >
> >             -Tim
> >
> >
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