[OpenSIPS-Users] number of opensips children

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Brian,

there are modules creating separate processes for handling additional 
events (like the mi_**** modules).

To see what processes you have and what they are doing, do:
opensipsctl fifo ps

Regards,
Bogdan

opensipslist at encambio.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An lun., déc 14, 2009, Stanisław PITUCHA schrieb:
>   
>> 2009/12/14 Jeff Pyle <jpyle at fidelityvoice.com>:
>>     
>>> I'm trying to determine the "proper" number of opensips children for my
>>> setup.
>>>       
> Me too.
>
>   
>> Unless you supply telephony to everyone in a small city, it will be
>> below 32 ;)
>>
>>     
> Okay, I've decided to start low and increase the children as soon as
> I notice performance problems. Is this a good strategy to learn how
> many children you need?
>
> I turn off TCP completly and set children to the lowest value:
>
>   listen=udp:name.host.tld:5060
>   #listen=tls:name.host.tld:5061
>   #disable_tls = 1
>   children = 1
>   #tcp_children = 1
>   fork = yes
>
> ...look at this:
>
>   # ps -ef | grep opensips
>   osuser 17127 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17131 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17128 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17132 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17125 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17130 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>   osuser 17129 0:00 /pfx/sbin/opensips -P /pfx/var/opensips/opensips.pid
>
> Okay I understand that one of them is the master process and that I
> should expect an additional process due to the forking (fork=yes),
> but why are there 7 (!) processes being spawned? I do have SRV and
> NAPTR records in DNS, can it be due to them?
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
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Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
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