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This is the scariest commit I've done in a long time. This is the astobj2-ification of chan_sip. I've tested a number of scenarios like crazy. It used to have 4x the call setup/teardown performance of trunk, but now it's roughly at parity. I will attempt to find the bottlenecks and get it back to the 4x mark. The changes made were somewhat invasive, but the value to the community of these upgrades outweighs waiting further for more testing. Every change being made to chan_sip was lousing this code up when we tried to merge. Peers, Users, Dialogs, are all now astobj2 objects, indexed via hashtables. Refcounting is used to track objects and free them at the bitter end of their lives. Please file issues on bugs.digium.com, and PLEASE, please, please be patient. One natural advantage to all the hash-table work is that loading large sip.conf files full of thousands of peers now goes much faster. One more please: PLEASE help thrash this code and test it.

git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@114190 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b
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murf 2008-04-16 23:53:27 +00:00
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* The ATTENDED_TRANSFER_COMPLETE_SOUND can now be set using setvar to cause a given
audio file to be played upon completion of an attended transfer.
* Added DNS manager support to registrations for peers referencing peer entries.
* Performance improvements via using hash tables (astobj2) and doubly-linked lists to improve
load/reload of large numbers of peers/users by ~40x (for large lists of peers.
Initially, we saw 4x improvement in call setup/destruction, but at the time
of merging, this gain has disappeared; further research will be done to try
and restore this performance improvement. Astobj2 refcounting is now used
for users, peers, and dialogs. Users are encouraged to assist in regression
testing and problem reporting!
IAX Changes
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@ -67,7 +67,21 @@ context=default ; Default context for incoming calls
;match_auth_username=yes ; if available, match user entry using the
; 'username' field from the authentication line
; instead of the From: field.
;;
;; hash table sizes. For maximum efficiency, adjust the following
;; values to be slightly larger than the maximum number of users/peers.
;; Too large, and space is wasted. Too small, and things will run slower.
;; 563 is probably way too big for small (home) applications, but it
;; should cover most small/medium sites.
;; it is recommended to make the sizes be a prime number!
;; This was internally set to 17 for small-memory applications...
;; All tables default to 563, except when compiled in LOW_MEMORY mode,
;; in which case, they default to 17. You can override this by uncommenting
;; the following, and changing the values.
;hash_users=563
;hash_peers=563
;hash_dialogs=563
allowoverlap=no ; Disable overlap dialing support. (Default is yes)
;allowtransfer=no ; Disable all transfers (unless enabled in peers or users)
; Default is enabled
@ -126,7 +140,7 @@ srvlookup=yes ; Enable DNS SRV lookups on outbound calls
; Disabling DNS SRV lookups disables the
; ability to place SIP calls based on domain
; names to some other SIP users on the Internet
;domain=mydomain.tld ; Set default domain for this host
; If configured, Asterisk will only allow
; INVITE and REFER to non-local domains

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Measuring the SIP channel driver's Performance
==============================================
This file documents the methods I used to measure
the performance of the SIP channel driver, in
terms of maximum simultaneous calls and how quickly
it could handle incoming calls.
Knowing these limitations can be valuable to those
implementing PBX's in 'large' environments. Will your
installation handle expected call volume?
Quoting these numbers can be totally useless for other
installations. Minor changes like the amount of RAM
in a system, the speed of the ethernet, the amount of
cache in the CPU, the CPU clock speed, whether or not
you log CDR's, etc. can affect the numbers greatly.
In my set up, I had a dedicated test machine running Asterisk,
and another machine which ran sipp, connected together with
ethernet.
The version of sipp that I used was sipp-2.0.1; however,
I have reason to believe that other versions would work
just as well.
On the asterisk machine, I included the following in my
extensions.ael file:
context test11
{
s => {
Answer();
while (1) {
Background(demo-instruct);
}
Hangup();
}
_X. => {
Answer();
while (1) {
Background(demo-instruct);
}
Hangup();
}
}
Basically, incoming SIP calls are answered, and
the demo-instruct sound file is played endlessly
to the caller. This test depends on the calling
party to hang up, thus allowing sipp to determine
the length of a call.
The sip.conf file has this entry:
[asterisk02]
type=friend
context=test11
host=192.168.134.240 ;; the address of the host you will be running sipp on
user=sipp
canreinvite=no
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
Note that it's pretty simplistic; no authentication beyond the host ip,
and it uses ulaw, which is pretty efficient, low-cpu-intensive codec.
To measure the impact of incoming call traffic on the Asterisk
machine, I run vmstat. It gives me an idea of the cpu usage by
Asterisk. The most common failure mode of Asterisk at high call volumes,
is that the CPU reaches 100% utilization, and then cannot keep up with
the workload, resulting in timeouts and other failures, which swiftly
compound and cascade, until gross failure ensues. Watch the CPU Idle %
numbers.
I learned to split the testing into two modes: one for just call call processing
power, in the which we had relatively few simultaneous calls in place,
and another where we allow the the number of simultaneous calls to quickly
reach a set maximum, and then rerun sipp, looking for the maximum.
Call processing power is measured with extremely short duration calls:
./sipp -sn uac 192.168.134.252 -s 12 -d 100 -l 256
The above tells sipp to call your asterisk test machine (192.168.134.252)
at extension 12, each call lasts just .1 second, with a limit of 256 simultaneous
calls. The simultaneous calls will be the rate/sec of incoming calls times the call length,
so 1 simultaneous call at 10 calls/sec, and 45 at 450 calls/sec. Setting the limit
to 256 implies you do not intend to test above 2560 calls/sec.
Sipp starts at 10 calls/sec, and you can slowly increase the speed by hitting '*' or '+'.
Watch your cpu utilization on the asterisk server. When you approach 100%, you have found
your limit.
Simultaneous calls can be measured with very long duration calls:
./sipp -sn uac 192.168.134.252 -s 12 -d 100000 -l 270
This will place 100 sec duration calls to Asterisk. The number of simultaneous
calls will increase until the maximum of 270 is reached. If Asterisk survives
this number and is not at 100% cpu utilization, you can stop sipp and run it again
with a higher -l argument.
By changing one Asterisk parameter at a time, you can get a feel for how much that change
will affect performance.