[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS performance tests

[James Mbuthia]

If you have an opensips implementation with authentication using mysql, will
hosting the mysql db on another server on the same network give
a noticeable performance difference?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Vlad Paiu <vladpaiu at opensips.org> wrote:

> Hello Chris,
>
> In the tests we performed we used SIPp as the UACs and the UAS was an
> OpenSIPS. In spite of this, I doubt that the UAS SiPp in your scenario would
> be the limiting factor.
>
> You could try the load debugging patches available in trunk ( more info on
> this can be found at [1] )
> to see what exactly is the limiting factor. I do not think the problem is
> the hardware you are testing on, as an dual core Intel with 4Gb of RAM
> should support plenty of traffic.
>
> As Adrian pointed out, it is much more likely that external queries, like
> DNS, SQL or Radius are the bottleneck on your system. Make sure to have
> OpenSIPS run in fork mode with enough children, and try the load debugging
> features to pinpoint your problem.
>
> [1] http://lists.opensips.org/pipermail/users/2011-February/016918.html
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Vlad Paiu
> OpenSIPS Developer
>
>
>
> On 03/09/2011 01:14 PM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>
>> The round trip time to the database and number of DNS, SQL and Radius
>> queries will impact the maximum possible CPS.
>>
>> You have to factor them all in.
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Chris Martineau wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Don't understand how you get such high cps. I have a scenario using SIPp
>>> as the clients and a script similar to test_I config file. The scenario
>>> makes a call to the far SIPp client waits 10 seconds and then sends a
>>> bye with the far SIPp client responding appropriately. However I can
>>> only manage a maximum of around 30cps before the 100 trying messages
>>> from the server start to fail and the invite retransmissions start to
>>> cascade.
>>> I have xlog disabled and debug=0 as this grinds the system down to only
>>> 5cps when switched on.
>>> My setup is a dual core intel with 4gb.
>>> As you can see there is a vast difference between 30 and 6000 cps which
>>> I can't imagine is being that drastically effected by my hardware as
>>> processor overhead is barely touched when it fails which would indicate
>>> opensips is introducing delay by blocking somewhere!
>>>
>>> The system is on a basic CentoS install.
>>>
>>> By the way I have also tried this with a stripped down config similar to
>>> test_B with little difference in performance!
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: users-bounces at lists.opensips.org
>>> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.opensips.org] On Behalf Of Vlad Paiu
>>> Sent: 08 March 2011 14:16
>>> To: OpenSIPS users mailling list; OpenSIPS devel mailling list
>>> Subject: [OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPS performance tests
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We have performed some tests using OpenSIPS 1.6.4 to simulate some real
>>> life scenarios, to get an idea on the load that can be handled by
>>> OpenSIPS and to see what is the performance penalty you get when using
>>> some OpenSIPS features like dialog support, DB authentication, DB
>>> accounting, memory caching, etc.
>>>
>>> A total of 11 tests were performed, using 11 different scenarios. The
>>> goal was to achieve the highest possible CPS in the given scenario,
>>> store load samples from the OpenSIPS proxy and then analyze the results.
>>>
>>> The base test used was that of a simple stateful SIP proxy. Than we kept
>>>
>>> adding features on top of this very basic configuration, features like
>>> loose routing, dialog support, authentication and accounting.
>>>
>>> The detailed description of the test scenarios performed, a performance
>>> penalty table showing the load impact introduced by adding different
>>> features onto OpenSIPS as well as a graphical chart showing load samples
>>>
>>> from all the tests can be found at
>>> http://www.opensips.org/Resources/StressTests
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vlad Paiu
>>> OpenSIPS Developer
>>>
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