On 08/10/2012 04:55 AM, Adam Johnston wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My FreeSWITCH setup works as follow: I have a service that launches
> and monitors faxes (via event sockets) on one of a few FreeSWITCH
> instances. These FreeSWITCH instances are running on dual-core, 2ghz
> CentOS 5.8 and CentOS 6.0 VMs. The issue is that once I get to ~200
> simultaneous faxes on any one FreeSWITCH VM the load average shoots up
> (typically ~30, although I've seen it get much higher) and the VM
> becomes sluggish and occasionally unusable.
>
> top and sar output confirms that CPU utilization is pretty low, as are
> IO wait and RAM usage.
>
> I'm using a git head from 2012-02-06, although I see the same problem
> if update to a more current head. On the most recent head I tried
> (2012-08-06) the issue is worse, and crashes with a backtrace similar
> to this Jira,
http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/FS-2893 despite my
> compiling Lua and including the FreeSWITCH bindings.
>
> These issues occur on both the CentOS 5.8 and 6.0 VMs. I'm in the
> process of loading 5.8 onto a physical machine and testing there. It's
> also worth nothing that this load issue does not occur when I launch
> faxes from a script on one of the VMs.
>
> Has anyone else seen similar high load issues before?
>
> Many thanks,
> Adam Johnston
>