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

Thu Jul 31 19:35:56 MSD 2014

Just one extra?

https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_three_way

On 31 July 2014 15:04, Oleg Stolyar <olegstolyar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>> --
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