[Freeswitch-users] Latest master and latest v1.4 consume more CPU for conferences

Thu Jul 31 18:04:48 MSD 2014

That's a whole different discussion.  Mostly because I need the ability to
easily add another person to the call.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Russell Treleaven <rtreleaven at bunnykick.ca>
wrote:

> Why do you have two person conferences instead of bridged calls?
>
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> *From:* "Oleg Stolyar" <olegstolyar at gmail.com>
> *To:* "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Sent:* 31 July, 2014 9:40 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Latest master and latest v1.4 consume
> more CPU for conferences
>
> I am not sure we are on the same page with the numbers.  The relative
> increase is about 30%-40%
>
> The 0.3% is the absolute increase per conference.  CPU usage per single
> two-member conference went from 1.2%-1.3% to 1.6%-2.0%
>
> I am using AWS m3.xlarge instances with CentOS.  It's a 4-core system, so
> the increase in CPU of usage of 30% would reduce the number of calls each
> instance can take.  The increase itself would not necessarily be a huge
> deal except if it's unexplained, it may be an indicator that something is
> wrong.  As I said in my original email, the system running the recent code
> also crashed less than 24 hours after starting to take live calls.  I
> wanted to call out the increase as it seems likely to me (although by no
> means certain) that the two are related.
>
> The previous FreeSWITCH version I used have always been rock solid - this
> was the first time FreeSWITCH crashed on me.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
>> What kind of system are you running on where 0.2 to 0.3% CPU increase
>> would really matter?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Oleg Stolyar <olegstolyar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, and it did when I first made the rate change.  It went from
>>> 1% CPU to the 1.2%-1.3% in the master from May.  The problem I am running
>>> into now is that there is another jump in CPU with no additional config
>>> change.
>>>
>>> If nothing comes to mind, I will patch the May master with the fix for
>>> WebRTC password size to fix my immediate issue and then try to find the
>>> time to bisect git and pinpoint what happened.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Anthony Minessale <
>>> anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is very likely to add to the cpu to transcode everything to 12000hz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Oleg Stolyar <olegstolyar at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Anthony, thank you for responding!
>>>>>
>>>>> I apologize for the previous email - I retracted it too soon - the CPU
>>>>> simply jumped down for a bit then went back up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are the full versions for both the master where it happened and
>>>>> v1.4.  Is this enough?
>>>>>
>>>>> FreeSWITCH Version 1.5.14b+git~20140729T132247Z~af64da86f2~64bit (git
>>>>> af64da8 2014-07-29 13:22:47Z 64bit)
>>>>> FreeSWITCH Version 1.4.7+git~20140724T230506Z~9d1c0f7f3d~64bit (git
>>>>> 9d1c0f7 2014-07-24 23:05:06Z 64bit)
>>>>>
>>>>> It does not occur on this master:
>>>>> FreeSWITCH Version 1.5.13b+git~20140522T175648Z~9d99c34682~64bit (git
>>>>> 9d99c34 2014-05-22 17:56:48Z 64bit)
>>>>>
>>>>> I figured I would try this email before bisecting git but it will
>>>>> likely be my next step.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the subject of the 12000 rate related bug - I'd love to discuss
>>>>> this more with you - perhaps I'll try to get a little bit of your time at
>>>>> ClueCon to just show you the problem.  It actually happens on every
>>>>> platform I tested it on except Debian 7.  Just in the last couple of days I
>>>>> reproduced it on Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04.  I only mentioned it in
>>>>> this thread in case the 12000 sample rate conference on 8000 codecs is
>>>>> relevant to the CPU increase.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Anthony Minessale <
>>>>> anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not really sure how to pinpoint .8% cpu increase.  You would
>>>>>> maybe have to git bisect?  I believe you already said this in another email
>>>>>> then retracted it.  So with all the back and forth it starts to sound like
>>>>>> you have misinformation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can't use vague references like "latest" which changes every 10
>>>>>> min.
>>>>>> You need to try the most current master (TODAY then recite the hash)
>>>>>> with a clean build and have a valid backtrace.
>>>>>> The things you are saying are inconsistent so I think you need to
>>>>>> rule out build skew from jumping around so many versions.
>>>>>> Your 12000 thing also makes no sense at all and does not occur for
>>>>>> anyone else which suggests you have environmental problem related to the
>>>>>> way your system is setup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Oleg Stolyar <olegstolyar at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have my FreeSWITCH running a bunch of conferences with two or
>>>>>>> three users using PCMU/8000 from all the user agents.  I have the
>>>>>>> conference sample rate set to 12000 to get around a strange bug I reported
>>>>>>> a couple of months ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my old installation with master from May 22 2014, the servers
>>>>>>> consumed about 1.2%-1.3% CPU per two-person conference.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the latest master AND in the latest v1.4 it went up to about
>>>>>>> 1.6%-2.0% CPU per two-person conference.  CPU usage by the FreeSWITCH
>>>>>>> process also jumps up and down more.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Additionally (not sure if it's related) the latest master crashed
>>>>>>> less than 24 hours after it started taking live traffic.  I ma trying to
>>>>>>> get the core dump and see if v1.4 also crashes but including the info here
>>>>>>> in case it gives someone an idea of what's going on with the CPU.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any ideas as to what's causing the increased CPU usage would be
>>>>>>> greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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