[Freeswitch-users] mod_conference scalability

[Brian]

Hi,

 

I'm new to FreeSWITCH and I'm testing the scalability of mod_conference to
see if it will scale better that other solutions. My scenario is to have one
speaker, and many listeners (mute). Since I have only one speaker, I was
expecting this to scale well because there is no audio mixing required, just
send each frame of the single speaker to each listener. Unfortunately, my
testing was disappointing, and it didn't scale nearly as well as I'd hoped
(based on what I've read on how FreeSWITCH is supposed to be generally very
scalable). 

 

Here's my server setup is this:

 

FreeSWITCH 1.0.4, 64 bit CentOS 5.3, on a quad-core Xeon server, 4 Gig of
RAM. I've set file logging to "notice" level. My conference profile is
configured to suppress several events, hoping that it would improve
performance.

 

Here are a few scenarios I tested, and roughly where I reached the point of
audio failure on the conferences:

 

Scenario 1:

1 conference, 1 speaker, audio failed at approx 300 listeners (mute) 

 

Scenario 2:

4 conferences, 1 speaker per conference, audio failed approx 110 listeners
per conference (so just over 400 total channels on the system).

 

Scenario 3:

16 conferences, 1 speaker per conference, audio failed at 32 listeners per
conference (so just over 500 total channels on the system).

 

 

Looking at the output from "top", it seems that in all 3 scenarios, the
audio quality failed when the % CPU for the FreeSWITCH process exceeded
300%. 

 

I was hoping maybe someone else might have done similar testing, or maybe
has suggestions on how to improve the performance. Or perhaps an alternate
solution to the one speaker, many listener case?

 

Thanks,

 

Brian.

 

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