[Freeswitch-users] High CPU usage and Slow BLFs with only 8 channels?
Ken Rice
krice at freeswitch.org
Mon Sep 27 01:26:13 UTC 2021
Sorry i dont have a config. However with OpenSips they have this midregister proxy option that eats a lot of the registration load for nat busting. you might read up on that and see if that helps any
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> On Sep 26, 2021, at 20:01, Jerry Kendall <Jerry.Kendall at bishophosting.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Ken,
>
> I have actually played with putting Kamailio in between the End Devices and FS but could not get Kamailio to do the REG/SUB and let all other things hit FS...
> I could'nt even get the SUBs to work of Kamailio..
>
> I get the REG working but that was all.
>
> Do you have a cfg file that can get me started ? Does anyone ?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
>> On 9/26/2021 4:25 PM, Ken Rice wrote:
>> just keep in mind registration and blf subs etc count as CPS (sip calls/sec) why not offload that stuff to opensips?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>>> On Sep 26, 2021, at 09:18, Jerry Kendall <Jerry.Kendall at bishophosting.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm having some interesting problems with our Freeswitch system.
>>>
>>> I have found Tim's posting athttps://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2012-February/080422.html
>>>
>>> It seems very similar but does not help me... Wish it did.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hardware: Dell R610, dual 6 core Xeon X5680 @ 3.3GHz with 10 Gig of RAM
>>> Network: Dual 10Gig Fiber to 40Gig fabric
>>>
>>> Databases: also Dell R610 with dual 10Gig and Mariadb 10.5.9 NO ISSUES - VERY FAST - ULTRA LOW LATENCY
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We have 2 different FS systems
>>> 1) One acting as an SBC of sorts - process SIP/RTP
>>> 2) One acting as a PBX - process SIP/RTP
>>>
>>> Providers are connected to SBC (public - context)
>>> PBX (sbc - context) connects to SBC (internal - context)
>>> End Points connect to PBX (device - context)
>>>
>>> picographically:
>>>
>>> ITSP --- SBC --- PBX --- EndPoints
>>>
>>> The machine running FreeSWITCH as an SBC is fine - 50 calls (100 sessions) and near zero load average - CPU idle 98% - ALL GREAT
>>>
>>> About 100 devices registered, all NAT'd, approx 50 subscription via BLF buttons
>>> Registration period is maxed to 60 minutes and most devices use the default of 60 minutes
>>>
>>> Typically, We see only a few CPS, maybe 5 if it's really busy
>>>
>>> All our trunks are SIP. Only using PCMU/8000 codec.
>>>
>>> We use MARIADB in the core - as well as for sofia, voicemail, and anything else that can use it.
>>>
>>> Config, Directory and dialplan are done using CURL and handled via apache2 on the same server over 127.0.0.1.
>>>
>>> I keep hearing about FS systems handling thousands of users on one box.
>>> I'm nowhere near that and it seems to be maxed out.
>>>
>>> Freeswitch on both systems is Version 1.10.6-release git 1ff9d0a 2021-03-25 13:16:09Z 64bit
>>>
>>> So... The problem
>>>
>>> The machine running FreeSWITCH as a PBX seems to be struggling during periods of any usage - even only 1 call (2 channels).
>>>
>>> Just a moment ago, load average is 4.5 - CPU Idle is 65% - 8 sessions active - 315 sessions since startup - 45 threads - 8 hours running
>>>
>>> The audio seems fine - no complaints reported..
>>> There is a very noticable chocking on the BLFs though... Every few minutes, the BLFs just freeze - yes - freeze... Then they catch up
>>>
>>> for example, for testing this, I have programmed a BLF on one phone.
>>>
>>> I run manually "luarun /etc/freeswitch/scripts/on.lua *8896 at domain.com" - the lights turns red
>>> then after a few seconds,
>>> I run manually "luarun /etc/freeswitch/scripts/off.lua *8896 at domain.com" - the light turns green
>>> Sometimes, when I run these manually, the lights take 30 seconds to change - sometimes - usually, under a second.
>>>
>>>
>>> They change the state of the subscribe target
>>> Here is the LUA script to turn the light ON(RED)
>>>
>>> ##############################################################
>>> #!/lua
>>>
>>> local random = math.random
>>> math.randomseed(os.time())
>>>
>>> local function uuid()
>>> local template ='xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'
>>> return string.gsub(template, '[xy]', function (c)
>>> local v = (c == 'x') and random(0, 0xf) or random(8, 0xb)
>>> return string.format('%x', v)
>>> end)
>>> end
>>>
>>> local function SendCallDirectorBLFevent()
>>>
>>> Uuid = uuid()
>>>
>>> local event = freeswitch.Event("PRESENCE_IN")
>>> event:addHeader("proto", "sip")
>>> event:addHeader("event_type", "presence")
>>> event:addHeader("alt_event_type", "dialog")
>>> event:addHeader("Presence-Call-Direction", "outbound")
>>> event:addHeader("from", argv[1])
>>> event:addHeader("login", argv[1])
>>> event:addHeader("unique-id", Uuid )
>>> event:addHeader("answer-state", "confirmed")
>>> event:fire();
>>> end
>>>
>>> SendCallDirectorBLFevent()
>>> ##############################################################
>>>
>>> The issue is the choking on the BLFs and the HIGH load avg for such small amounts of calls on the PBX - the SBC seems fine.
>>>
>>> SO.....
>>>
>>> I have been trying to resolve this for about a month - looking everywhere I could.
>>> I have monitored the network stats, disk IO stats, cpu usage, processes, etc.... I don't see anything different between the SBC and PBX stats...
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like the BLFs to show the correct state a little faster (more like half a second, not 10-60 seconds after the event) and would I like to know how to fix the high CPU load on the PBX.
>>>
>>> I have confirmed 2 things today:
>>> 1) it's not using mod_mariadb as I put back the ODBC and not help
>>> 2) this is seems most noticeable when new calls come in. The BLFs pause to 5-8 seconds and continue - there is a noticeable spike in load avg when calls keep coming in for 5 minutes...
>>>
>>>
>>> Any information that would be helpful?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jerry
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>> _________________________________________________________________________
>>
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>> Enhance your FreeSWITCH install with disruptive priced SMS and PSTN services.
>> Build your next product on our scalable cloud platform.
>>
>> Join our online community to chat in real time https://signalwire.community
>>
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>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
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> Enhance your FreeSWITCH install with disruptive priced SMS and PSTN services.
> Build your next product on our scalable cloud platform.
>
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>
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>
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