[Freeswitch-users] rtp-timer-name / timer issues

[Geoff Mina]

What OS are you using? We run FS at over 600 concurrent calls on a smaller EC2 (c4.xlarge) size and have not had any issues in either US-East or US-West. 

Running FS Installed from YUM. CentOS7. 

> On Feb 5, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Colin Morelli <colin.morelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey list,
> 
> I'm running FS on EC2 (I know, I know). Having some issues with random packet loss, which I believe almost certainly I have narrowed down to timer issues and/or network latency/jitter (seems surprising since I'm using c5.xlarge instances).
> 
> Behavior is that, during a call, brief pauses or notable audio loss will occur. This is on high bandwidth links that are otherwise stable. Freeswitch logs with max debug spew out "Hot Hit 1" through "Hot Hit 10" and eventually "auto-flush catching up 1 packet(s)" in rapid succession (usually going through the cycle 4-5 times) before things settle again. Obviously that means a minimum of 4-5 audio packets were dropped within the span of a second which results in considerable audio artifacting.
> 
> Changing rtp-timer-name to none, which I understand to perform synchronous reads of RTP audio (as opposed to timer-based async reads) makes the audio notably smoother. That said, I'm having a hard time uncovering the consequences of doing this. Obviously I understand that reads will block the RTP thread, but I can't seem to understand the potential ramifications of this. Could anyone help clarify?
> 
> My other question is: assuming "timer while hot" indicates what I believe it does (that when the timer hit there was >1 packet in the queue to be read), couldn't this issue also just be caused by network jitter, and not necessarily just timer inconsistencies?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best,
> Colin
> 
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