[Freeswitch-users] Audio quality issues

[Grant Bagdasarian]

We're using VMWare ESXi 5.1 (Free Version).

NIC version: Intel I350 Gigabit Network.

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Michael Jerris
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:28 PM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Audio quality issues

I wouldn't be shocked if the virtual nic's are bottlenecking on pps.  I've seen this before.  Also possible you have a crap physical nic.  What kind of nic is it and what virtualization technology?

On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Grant Bagdasarian <GB at cm.nl<mailto:GB at cm.nl>> wrote:


The network shouldn't be an issue, since we have at least 1Gbps lines. The tests stay within the network.

I forgot to mention the calls are being distributed across two machines by a Kamailio instance.
So for a total of 800 concurrent calls generated by Sipp, each machine has 400 active calls.
CPU load reaches about 70% per machine.

At this point both FS machines are virtualized, since the performance gain wasn't that much compared to physical.
The VM host shows it is using ~3/4 of its CPU resources.

Htop shows that the normal priority threads(green) and the kernel threads(red) are about the same length.

Also, FS is running on Ubuntu Server 12.04 x64.

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org<mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org<mailto:users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org>] On Behalf Of Stanislav Sinyagin
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Audio quality issues

800 calls at 64kbps is 51Mbps.
Could there be a network issue, like a 100Mbps line between the endpoints?

How heavy is your CPU load?  "htop" command would be helpful in this.




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From: Grant Bagdasarian <GB at cm.nl<mailto:GB at cm.nl>>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:14 AM
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Audio quality issues

Hello,

I was wondering what the maximum concurrent calls for FS before audio quality becomes an issue? I assume the specs of the machine would also affect this.
We are currently running FS on a Six Core (12 Threads) Intel E5-2430 CPU and get about 800 concurrent calls at 10-20 CPS. The audio quality at these rates is still fair, but we do notice some quality issue's.
Going above these numbers screws up the audio quality: choppy sound, audio drops etc. We aren't doing any heavy media processing, just simply playing a file (G711-Alaw) which lasts about 2 minutes during the load test.
These numbers are for one way audio, where Sipp doesn't echo the RTP back. These numbers get lower once Sipp echo's the RTP.

I've tried FS on a physical box and also on a virtual box (ESXi 5.1), but the performance gain on physical vs virtual isn't that much.

I disabled all the modules we don't need, like CDR's, conferencing, etc.

Are there any parameters(config files)/modules that can affect the quality of the audio stream?

Regards,

Grant
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