Which of the 2 machines has the load issue? You said it was one box calling the other.

You have 2 major things against you, single CPU and AMD, but you should at least be able to get in the vicinity of 800-1000 calls on a box like that.

Are you calling the default 9999?  It's not really an appropriate extension for load testing.
On the terminating box you should set up a manual extension that is the first one in the dial plan
to play a wav file from preferably a ram disk or /tmp

If you do plan on using this in production accept nothing less than a multi-core intel machine with at least 4 cores, the more cores the better because that parallel processing is where FS gets it's atvantage.



On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:56 AM, rod <kawarod@laposte.net> wrote:
Dear list,

I've been playing with freeswitch for some time (2 months) and the fact
is that I'm very pleased with the functionnalities of this software.

I'd like to use FS as a SBC handling media and I'm doing some tests with
sipp to load the machine but I'm unable to bridge more than 60 calls
without seeing the CPU being loaded at 100%. I'm sure something is going
wrong with my setup but I'm unable to see what.

The test machine has the following specs:
  Athlon XP 3500+ with 2GB of memory (I know this is not a high end
machine :p)

Freeswitch:/opt/freeswitch/log# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 95
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2199.973
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic
cr8_legacy
bogomips        : 4402.97
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

I installed FS on a fresh debian 64:
  Linux Freeswitch 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux

I set the ulimit parameters like those on the website:
  freeswitch@internal> ...
Freeswitch:/opt/free-svn/bin# ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 999999
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) unlimited
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 244
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) unlimited
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited


My network setup is the following:

  SIPP machine (10.10.10.1/24)----------------vlan 55
----------(10.10.10.254/24) FS (10.10.20.254/24)-------------- vlan56
-------------------(10.10.20.100/24) OTHER STOCK FS


I launched sipp with:
  sipp -sn uac_pcap -s 9999 -r 10 -l 80 -d 60000 -mi 10.10.10.1 -i
10.10.10.1 -mp 25000 10.10.10.254:5060

The dialplan on FS is very simple:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Dialplan_XML -->
<include>
 <context name="default">

   <extension name="hold_music_bridge">
    <condition field="destination_number" expression="^9999$">
      <action application="answer"/>
      <action application="bridge"
data="sofia/external/9999@10.10.20.100"/>
      </condition>
  </extension>
  </context>

</include>

FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.trunk (11560M) Started.
Crash Protection [Disabled]
Max Sessions[1000]
Session Rate[100]
SQL [Enabled]


The test is very simple: sipp dial 9999 that matches in my FS dialplan
and this is bridged to an other FS machine playing music on hold.
When I launch "top"  I see after 30 to 40 s that FS consumes all the CPU
ressources (with a mean of 50-60 % before), with 80 calls.
When I set 70 calls, I have to wait 70-80 s before seeing the same issue.

Presence is set to false on the 2 profile.

I have the same issue with FS 1.0.2 that' s why I tried FS 11560.

When I use the FS machine as a router to test the packet per second
performance, I'm reaching 100Mbps with 8000pps in each direction (from
vlan 55 to vlan56) with less than 12% CPU. So that I don't think there's
an issue with the network.

Here is an "mpstat -P ALL 1" to show you what's happening suddenly with
70 bridge calls:
12:31:26     CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft
%steal   %idle    intr/s
12:31:27     all    3,00    0,00    3,00    0,00    1,00    4,00
0,00   89,00   6241,00
12:31:27       0    3,00    0,00    3,00    0,00    1,00    4,00
0,00   89,00   6241,00

12:31:27     CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft
%steal   %idle    intr/s
12:31:28     all   14,14    0,00   56,57    0,00    2,02    5,05
0,00   22,22   6035,35
12:31:28       0   14,14    0,00   56,57    0,00    2,02    5,05
0,00   22,22   6035,35

12:31:28     CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft
%steal   %idle    intr/s
12:31:29     all   24,75    0,00   67,33    0,00    0,99    6,93
0,00    0,00   5483,17
12:31:29       0   24,75    0,00   67,33    0,00    0,99    6,93
0,00    0,00   5483,17


The CPU is going from 89% idle to 0% in less than 2 seconds.

I know that I don't have to expect too much from this kind of hardware,
but it seems strange that the CPU power vanished so suddenly.

Thanks a lot for the guys that have read this long mail :p

kind regards,
rod


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