[OpenSIPS-Users] Setting opensips for maximum performance

[Jan Rozhon]

Now I found block of these errors -

Feb 21 03:30:57 chieftec /usr/sbin/opensips[4795]: 
ERROR:auth_db:get_ha1: failed to query database
Feb 21 03:30:57 chieftec /usr/sbin/opensips[4782]: 
ERROR:auth_db:get_ha1: failed to query database
Feb 21 03:30:57 chieftec /usr/sbin/opensips[4791]: 
ERROR:auth_db:get_ha1: failed to query database
Feb 21 03:30:57 chieftec /usr/sbin/opensips[4792]: 
ERROR:auth_db:get_ha1: failed to query database
Feb 21 03:30:57 chieftec /usr/sbin/opensips[4783]: 
ERROR:auth_db:get_ha1: failed to query database

So there is a problem with database as well. Does it mean, that even if 
system utilization tools (SAR) shows, that only about 1200 MB is used, 
opensips has run out of memory?


Dne 22.2.2010 10:05, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu napsal(a):
> If you received a 500 reply from opensips, you may check opensips logs
> for errors - maybe opensips is running out of memory or some other
> internal error.
>
> Regards,
> Bogdan
>
> Jan Rozhon wrote:
>    
>> Hi Bogdan,
>>
>> I also thought, that the problem may be in SIPp, however most error I
>> get in SIPp are 500 Server Error Occured, so It directed me to
>> Opensips, moreover I tried to increase the load on a single VM and the
>> problems didnt occure until I reached 100% CPU utilization on SIPp VM.
>>
>> Disabling the authentication is not an option for me, because I need
>> it in my thesis, but I will try it to see, if it is not the
>> bottleneck.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jan
>>
>> 2010/2/22 Bogdan-Andrei Iancu<bogdan at voice-system.ro>:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi Jan,
>>>
>>> Jan Rozhon wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Hi Bogdan,
>>>>
>>>> thank you for your advice, but no help so far. I ran a test again using
>>>> a load of 280 calls per second (2800 simultaneous calls) and watched
>>>> receive buffer errors using netstat -su, but only 2930 errors occured
>>>> out of almost 3 000 000 packets received. So if I understand it well,
>>>> the problem is not caused by udp buffer size, because despite the low
>>>> number of udp datagrams discarded more than 60 000 calls were not
>>>> succesful (aproximately 25% of total calls).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> In sipp, what are the the cps and max parallel call you are using ?
>>> Also, what kind of failures does the sipp report (missing 200ok ?
>>> missing BYE? etc).
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Then I checked the database setting - I am using MySQL with "0"
>>>> parameter (no database persistency), so I dont know how else I can make
>>>> it run faster (I cannot use separate computer for the database).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> so no DB persistence for usrloc, but you mentioned  using auth - is this
>>> correct? as auth is doing real time DB queries maybe you should try
>>> disabling the auth also to see how this affects the performance.
>>>
>>>        
>>>> As an opensips newbie, I dont have a clue, where the real problem could
>>>> be, so any further help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Jan
>>>>
>>>> Dne 19.2.2010 14:56, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu napsal(a):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to see where the bottleneck is. If it is not the CPU, it must
>>>>> be some I/O blocking opensips. For example the DB may be too slow
>>>>> blocking opesips processes ->   no process to read traffic from network ->
>>>>> traffic discarded, package lost.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, you should first look with netstat at the UDP sock, to see if the
>>>>> in-buffer is full or not (if full, the kernel will discard packages).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the timeouts (for calls, for retransmissions) see the TM module:
>>>>>          http://www.opensips.org/html/docs/modules/1.6.x/tm.html#id228443
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Bogdan
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan Rozhon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> as a part of my diploma thesis I'm trying to do some performance testing
>>>>>> of opensips running on low cost machine with 4GB of RAM and dual-core
>>>>>> AMD Athlon processor. As a generator of SIP traffic I use SIPp v3.1
>>>>>> running on 4 virtual computers as UAC and two computers as UAS all
>>>>>> connected just by gigabit ports of a single switch. My proublem is, that
>>>>>> as soon as I reach the load of 200 calls per second (2000 simultaneous
>>>>>> calls) many of those calls (aroud 50%) don't finish succesfully. CPU
>>>>>> utilization of opensips machine is around 40% and memory around 25%, so
>>>>>> the opensips has still a lot of free resources, but it doesn't use them.
>>>>>> Could you please advise me, how to change default configuration script
>>>>>> and opensips settings to achieve better results?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now, the only changes I made is :
>>>>>> -enabling registrar/proxy authentication;
>>>>>> -disabled tcp, since all the traffic is carried by udp;
>>>>>> -set shared memory to 2048 MB;
>>>>>> -set number of children to 16
>>>>>> -limit debug level to 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. How can I increase the time, after which opensips retransmits SIP
>>>>>> messages?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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