[Freeswitch-users] high load with ~200 fax calls despite low CPU utilization and low IO wait

[Adam Johnston]

The 200 faxes are sending, they attempt T.38 but fallback to audio so it's
a mix of both.

If I log into a FreeSWITCH VM and launch 200 faxes from a script I don't
see nearly the same level of CPU load, so I'm inclined to think it has
something to do with the (many) event socket connections between my
controller application and the VMs. I'm setting up a hardware FreeSWITCH
server and writing a test harness to prove this out.

Thanks,
Adam


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org>wrote:

> 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
> >
> What are these 200 FAXes doing? sending or receiving? Using audio or
> T.38? It makes quite a different to the load. Sending 200 faxes by audio
> at 14,400bps will keep a dual core machine busy. I'm not sure you can
> trust the CPU utilisation figures in a VM environment.
>
> Steve
>
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