March 2013 - FreeSWITCH-users - FreeSWITCH Mailing Lists

codec
by Venkateshwaran Thirugnanam 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi All, What's the difference between Pass-through and Transcodable codec? pls let me know with scenario or example ..Thanks Regards, Kumaran T

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FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hello folks! News and Notes is back after a hiatus last week. The important news from the past week is that of the recent releases of both FreeSWITCH version 1.2.6 <http://freeswitch.org/node/439> and version 1.2.7. As Ken Rice mentioned in his announcement<http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/2013-March/093229.ht…>, Murphy's Law <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law> struck again. Quite literally within minutes of tagging and releasing version 1.2.6 the team discovered some serious issues and very quickly released version 1.2.7. Needless-to-say, if you somehow ended up on 1.2.6 then please immediately move to 1.2.7. Last week on the community conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_03_06>we reviewed some of the important aspects of ZRTP <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/ZRTP> vs. SRTP<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/SRTP>. It is easy to setup ZRTP, so we encourage you to do so. The more people we have using it the better our implementation will be. Also, it will be easier to encourage hardware vendors to include ZRTP when they realize just how pervasive it is. On this week's call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_03_13>we are having long-time telephony OSS programmer Areski join us to highlight the improvements in Newfies Dialer<http://www.newfies-dialer.org/>. A lot has changed in the year since we last heard from him. We look forward to hearing more. In ClueCon news we have uploaded more videos from 2012: * Seven Du - Building a Command and Dispatch System<http://youtu.be/FsSenee8Fn8> * Chad Phillips - Fun With VoIP <http://youtu.be/cZSRkkbf1D0> Stay tuned for more information on ClueCon 2013 - it's coming up fast. In the meantime, have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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FreeTDM, TDM400P - "TDM PCI Master abort"
by Johan Helsingius 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi, I have a Wildcard TDM400P card in my freeswitch system running on Ubuntu 12.10. After the latest OS upgrades I keep getting a constant stream of "TDM PCI Master abort" kernel messages. Do I need to rebuild some driver? Julf

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nibblebill, spidermonkey_odbc issue
by Tomasz Szuster 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hi, I'm struggling with making nibblebill working. What I've did till now is: Installed odbc: * libmyodbc * libodbc1 * odbcinst * odbcinst1debian2 * unixodbc * unixodbc-dev compile freeswitch using ./configure --enable-core-odbc-support make; make install My spidermonkey.conf file has: <configuration name="spidermonkey.conf" description="Spider Monkey JavaScript Plug-Ins"> <modules>  <load module="mod_spidermonkey_core_db"/> <load module="mod_spidermonkey_socket"/> <load module="mod_spidermonkey_odbc"/> </modules> </configuration> My odbc.ini: [nibblebill1] Driver = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libmyodbc.so SERVER = callcenter PORT = 3306 DATABASE = nibblebill1 OPTION = 67108864 USER = nibblebill1 PASSWORD = XXXXXXX ldd /usr/local/freeswitch/mod/mod_spidermonkey_odbc.so linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffbd7ff000) libfreeswitch.so.1 => /usr/local/freeswitch/lib/libfreeswitch.so.1 (0x00007f2f193ee000) libjs.so.1 => /usr/local/freeswitch/lib/libjs.so.1 (0x00007f2f19120000) libnspr4.so => /usr/local/freeswitch/lib/libnspr4.so (0x00007f2f18eef000) libodbc.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbc.so.1 (0x00007f2f18c82000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2f18a65000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2f186a5000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2f184a1000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f2f18268000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f2f1805f000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f2f17e03000) libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f2f17a3b000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f2f17813000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2f17513000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2f17217000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2f17000000) libltdl.so.7 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libltdl.so.7 (0x00007f2f16df6000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2f19a48000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2f16bde000) FreeSWITCH (Version 1.2.6 git a424765 2013-01-04 15:45:59Z) When I try to run* load mod_spidermonkey_odbc* I get: [CRIT] switch_loadable_module.c:1330 Error Loading module /usr/local/freeswitch/mod/mod_spidermonkey_odbc.so **/usr/local/freeswitch/mod/mod_spidermonkey_odbc.so: undefined symbol: mod_spidermonkey_odbc_module_interface** *load mod_nibblebill:* 2013-02-26 21:46:40.116678 [ERR] switch_odbc.c:365 STATE: IM002 CODE 0 ERROR: [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified 2013-02-26 21:46:40.116678 [CRIT] mod_nibblebill.c:220 Cannot connect to ODBC driver/database odbc://callcenter (user: nibblebill1 / pass XXXXX)! 2013-02-26 21:46:40.116678 [CONSOLE] switch_loadable_module.c:1348 Successfully Loaded [mod_nibblebill] Also from time to time in logs I've see: [ERR] switch_odbc.c:365 STATE: IM002 CODE 0 ERROR: [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified Will you be able to help with this issue ? Thank you. -- Regards. Tomasz

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High cps load causes weird cpu and memory starvation. Need suggestions on how to debug.
by bratner bratner 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hi! Please assist me to find a way to get some insight into this problem and file a proper bug report. Looks like 2 different problems, one is load related (like a race of some sort) the other is a mem leak. I'm running FS debs compiled on ubuntu 12.04 (-n20130227T114536Z-1~presice+ 1git). The machine is ubuntu 12.04 server , CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz, 4GB RAM and no swap. 3.1G RAM free after FS is started. I disabled HT in BIOS to get proper CPU load readings from top and vmstat (no HT also allows for higher cps for some reason...). The FS setup has 2 SIP profiles , internal/external (functioning as incoming/outgoing ), XML Dialplan that runs a lua script. Calls come in to profile 'internal', authed by ip acl , go to the dialplan and sent through profile 'external' to a uri string generated by the lua script. I bombard the machine with high call rate of short calls ,120-180cps , 5sec. Everything stays fine for some time , the higher the load the faster the problems appear. When i pressure the machine with 150cps and up , it works fine at first with 20%-30% idle CPU. After some time passes (10-30minutes) system cpu usage jumps from 3%-7% to around 50%, CPU is 95% busy and vmstat reports hundereds and sometimes thousands of runnable tasks. If i stop sending calls at this moment, wait for the CPU load to wind down and start calling again then the CPU load saturates right away. Even if i lower the CPS rate. restarting freeswitch at this point brings the system to the original state and it will take some time to get saturated again. Another symptom is that during the test the available free mem is slowly allocated to freeswitch until it reaches 13.1Gb virtual image and then the kernel kills it. Here are some numbers: Running 120 calls per second , 5second calls: Starts like this: This is very good from my POV. procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 5 0 0 3255876 35444 96580 0 0 9 2 66 90 1 1 98 0 4 0 0 3253080 35444 96652 0 0 0 0 16048 20727 36 3 61 0 4 0 0 3247780 35444 96684 0 0 0 0 16521 21048 36 4 60 0 4 0 0 3242860 35444 96784 0 0 0 0 15695 19825 36 3 62 0 1 0 0 3237980 35452 96768 0 0 0 24 16072 19851 36 3 60 0 4 0 0 3233692 35452 96812 0 0 0 0 16299 20980 35 4 61 0 8 0 0 3230280 35452 96928 0 0 0 0 15034 18965 36 3 61 0 2 0 0 3227764 35452 96896 0 0 0 0 13956 20621 37 3 60 0 After some (long) time it started having trouble and eat lots of free ram (note that the idle cpu% and system cpu% jumped up but there are still over 1G free mem available) : procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 22 0 0 1108588 100304 2034628 0 0 0 0 145350 183629 37 53 10 0 5 0 0 1108224 100304 2034668 0 0 0 0 151937 167249 38 57 5 0 11 0 0 1108268 100304 2034904 0 0 0 0 149931 176143 37 58 5 0 7 0 0 1108244 100312 2034752 0 0 0 32 138612 183583 40 47 14 0 3 0 0 1108056 100312 2034792 0 0 0 0 111446 162733 42 29 29 0 4 0 0 1108064 100312 2034836 0 0 0 0 112568 164187 41 30 29 0 14 0 0 1108040 100312 2034880 0 0 0 0 133372 174676 39 45 17 0 10 0 0 1107468 100312 2034920 0 0 0 0 157371 184888 37 58 5 0 Short time after that is got into really serious trouble (3000 runnable tasks!? heading toward memory exhaustion): procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 3336 0 0 146580 9248 1457016 0 0 0 0 306642 291819 28 67 5 0 1180 0 0 145060 9220 1430212 0 0 248 848 294654 285273 27 68 5 0 1028 0 0 148616 8996 1366844 0 0 0 0 421614 385342 32 63 4 0 1026 0 0 150964 8880 1298832 0 0 0 28 462825 416480 31 65 4 0 1338 0 0 146260 8688 1242440 0 0 0 0 442247 391139 27 69 5 0 1945 0 0 143148 8680 1197180 0 0 0 0 364361 329958 24 71 5 0 1381 0 0 154668 8596 1137912 0 0 0 0 359982 323543 23 72 5 0 After UAC completed transactions 5198242/ UAS completed transactions 5512619 calls FS crashed and it looked like this: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 3 2 0 92972 568 20492 0 0 156 8 117314 130220 7 40 38 15 <-- back in the day i would kill for 92Mb free mem. 10 5 0 3473328 208 9848 0 0 24344 48 104557 89011 5 62 15 17 <- Now the kernel kills FS for taking the rest of it. 8 0 0 3482436 340 14408 0 0 3208 0 2582 2046 0 95 4 1 9 0 0 3504792 348 14344 0 0 0 48 2312 1836 0 93 7 0 12 0 0 3532184 348 14348 0 0 0 0 2387 1984 0 94 6 0 6 0 0 3561792 348 14876 0 0 528 0 2523 2178 0 93 6 0 11 0 0 3592816 348 14876 0 0 0 0 2684 2248 0 95 5 0 3 0 0 3615424 348 14876 0 0 0 0 2820 2494 0 95 5 0 7 0 0 3633488 348 14876 0 0 0 0 2990 2805 0 94 6 0 7 0 0 3654916 348 14876 0 0 0 0 3350 3222 0 96 4 0 11 0 0 3680708 348 14876 0 0 0 0 3869 4018 0 94 6 0 0 0 0 3773532 476 16876 0 0 2344 0 6598 9501 0 74 24 2 0 0 0 3773836 476 16912 0 0 0 0 191 129 0 0 100 0 <- FS is not running any more, 100% idle CPU , lots of free ram 0 0 0 3773856 476 17108 0 0 0 0 91 63 0 0 100 0 dmesg of the crash is this: [48674.576126] Out of memory: Kill process 31552 (freeswitch) score 674 or sacrifice child [48674.578188] Killed process 31552 (freeswitch) total-vm:10177480kB, anon-rss:2710092kB, file-rss:0kB fs_log switches to the dark side : (there was no disk space problem of course, i have no idea at which time point in the spiral down this popped on the console ) 2013-03-06 23:27:22.923640 [ERR] switch_core_sqldb.c:579 NATIVE SQL ERR [database or disk is full] BEGIN EXCLUSIVE 2013-03-06 23:27:22.923640 [CRIT] switch_core_sqldb.c:1679 ERROR [database or disk is full] 2013-03-06 23:27:22.923640 [ERR] switch_core_sqldb.c:579 NATIVE SQL ERR [cannot commit - no transaction is active] COMMIT 2013-03-06 23:27:22.963609 [CRIT] switch_core_session.c:1674 Thread Failure! 2013-03-06 23:27:22.963609 [CRIT] switch_core_session.c:1634 LUKE: I'm hit, but not bad. 2013-03-06 23:27:22.963609 [CRIT] switch_core_session.c:1635 LUKE'S VOICE: Artoo, see what you can do with it. Hang on back there.... Green laserfire moves past the beeping little robot as his head turns. After a few beeps and a twist of his mechanical arm, Artoo reduces the max sessions to 13897 thus, saving the switch from certain doom. and thats all , FS is dead. Runing the test at 180 cps will significantly hasten the death. It starts normal with ~40% idle cpu then after circa 160k calls it starts to spiral: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 6 0 0 2901484 63204 161132 0 0 0 0 20586 33073 54 5 41 0 5 0 0 2901468 63212 160988 0 0 0 12 25359 41915 53 6 42 0 4 0 0 2901220 63212 161064 0 0 0 0 19650 31211 55 5 40 0 7 0 0 2901080 63212 161124 0 0 0 0 21148 33462 54 5 41 0 2 0 0 2900676 63212 161188 0 0 0 0 21767 35568 54 5 42 0 5 0 0 2900468 63212 161256 0 0 0 0 19398 30073 54 5 41 0 2 0 0 2900088 63220 161304 0 0 0 12 21315 34563 54 5 42 0 3 0 0 2900180 63220 161484 0 0 0 0 19858 31561 42 4 54 0 <-- this should not happen the load is constant and idle cpu% should stay at ~40% 3 0 0 2899768 63220 161520 0 0 0 0 29907 46883 39 4 57 0 11 0 0 2900056 63220 161504 0 0 0 0 41730 63440 41 5 54 0 9 0 0 2899536 63220 161768 0 0 0 0 48876 68159 40 5 54 0 6 0 0 2899512 63228 161620 0 0 0 12 59988 80421 41 6 53 0 49 0 0 2876072 63228 162004 0 0 0 0 193384 241453 57 23 21 0 <-- here we go, starting the memory hogging cpu eating spiral 40 0 0 2830720 63228 162080 0 0 0 0 308948 356178 51 49 0 0 156 0 0 2776576 63228 161984 0 0 0 0 301514 325415 48 48 5 0 178 0 0 2727044 63228 162260 0 0 0 0 290168 306158 44 51 5 0 70 0 0 2683252 63236 161924 0 0 0 48 291792 302632 37 58 5 0 5 0 0 2618432 63236 162204 0 0 0 0 316170 302886 35 59 7 0 2 0 0 2548092 63236 162364 0 0 0 0 340707 319105 38 56 5 0 2 0 0 2460528 63236 162464 0 0 0 1596 386953 348210 40 54 6 0 Nothing on fs warn/err log at this point until memory is all full. Please give me some ideas on how to get some useful info for a bug report. Kind Regards, Boris Ratner.

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Voicemail
by Sébastien Gay 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hello, I have a problem with FreeSwitch and voicemail. When a call comes in SIP I have no problem, but when the call comes to an analog line (FXO) I feel that FreeSwitch does not detect voice and cut the voice message after the timeout (silent). Does anyone has already had this problem? Thanks

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If one ICTDialer developer read... FS hupal was called on immediately calls!
by Sayyed Mohammad Emami Razavi 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

I'm working with ICTDialer, python plivo and FS event socket. Have you ever been worked with ICTDialer by your own? When i create campaign to call -immediately- it creates channels, sessions and calls and plays your appropriate voice but after some seconds (.e.g 20 seconds that is lower than 300 seconds default limitation and crontab duration in ICTDialer) it kills your calls with hupal called with plivo unexpectedly! Any suggestion?

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Performance Bottlenecks Update?
by Avi Marcus 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Performance_testing_and_configurationslists some performance bottlenecks, I'd like to check if they are still an issue... I recall some changes in how threads are run. 1) "libsofia only handles 1 thread per profile, so if that is your bottle neck use more profiles" Is this still true? I saw Anthony mention in a ML post that there is a param for a separate thread for incoming registrations but I can't find it on the wiki or find the email. 2) "Reports of running more than a single instance of FreeSWITCH has helped." If libsofia doesn't have a bottleneck (see #1), then what part of FS would? Each call get it's own thread. Why would this help? 3) "On a normal configuration, core.db is written to disk almost every second, generating hundreds of block-writes per second. To avoid this problem, turn /usr/local/freeswitch/db into an in-memory filesystem." It seems the other alternative is: "-nosql -- disable internal sql scoreboard" What does -nosql disable? e.g. for a dialer trunk you don't need presence, track-calls.. can you still get an active call count from FS? 4) from here<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Switch.conf.xml#initial-event-threads> "initial-event-threads Number of event dispatch threads to allocate in the core. Default is 1. If you see the WARNING "Create additional event dispatch thread" on a heavily loaded server, you could increase the number of threads to prevent the system from falling behind." If I expect high cps/load, e.g. for dialer term, should I set this higher from the start? Anything else I should know, other than "FreeSWITCH is free, so you can use that money you saved to get good hardware" ? I remembered that part! -Avi Marcus BestFone

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Logical AND + NOT
by Dmitriy Shumaev 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Hi I want to record all sessions, except calls to group numbers and to IVR. So I need something like:  <extension name="record_3..16_digits" continue="true"> <condition field="${is_already_recording}" expression="^$"/> <condition field="destination_number" expression!="^(400)$"/>  <condition field="destination_number" expression!="^(399)$"/>  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(\d{3,16})$"> <action application="set" data="RECORD_TITLE=Recording ${caller_id_name} ${caller_id_number} to ${destination_number} at ${strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M)}"/> <action application="set" data="RECORD_STEREO=true"/> <action application="export" data="ignore_early_media=true"/> <action application="set" data="media_bug_answer_req=true"/> <action application="record_session" data="$${base_dir}/recordings/archive/${strftime(%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)}_${caller_id_name}_${caller_id_number}_2_${destination_number}.mp3"/> <action application="export" data="is_already_recording=true"/> </condition> </extension> . But the syntax of condition does not allow the operator " not equal" or "!=". What should I do? With best regards, Shumaev DA, KBR Ltd.

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WebRTC
by Alex Lake 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

I was wondering if anyone here has been playing with WebRTC to do a browser-based softphone?

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