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    <p>Hello,</p>
    <p>the workload is split between the processes created due to param
      timer_procs>1. If timer_procs=0, is the primary timer that
      takes care of checking for and cleaning expired records.</p>
    <p>If timer_procs=1, then a dedicated timer process is created by
      usrloc and this timer process is doing the cleanup job for all
      location records. If timer_procs>1, then the workload is split
      among those processes, each process gets assigned a list of slots
      from the internal hash table storing the location records and they
      do cleanup on those slots.</p>
    <p>Cheers,<br>
      Daniel<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20.02.20 08:50, Alex Balashov wrote:<br>
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      Thanks, Henning.
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      <div>But I thought Joel’s question about multiple processes was
        interesting. Is the workload somehow split up among them? If
        not, why have multiple ones?<br>
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          <div>Sent from my iPad</div>
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          <blockquote type="cite">On Feb 20, 2020, at 2:00 AM, Henning
            Westerholt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hw@skalatan.de"><hw@skalatan.de></a> wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Joel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">$
                  root@proxy-1:~# kamcmd ps |grep second<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">31314   secondary
                  timer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Basically
                  it makes sense to use a dedicated timer if you have a
                  large DB and/or a DB which is not particularly fast
                  for the expiration, to not block the core timer to
                  long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Henning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">-- <o:p>
                  </o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Henning
                  Westerholt –
                </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a
                    href="https://skalatan.de/blog/"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#0563C1"
                      lang="EN-GB">https://skalatan.de/blog/</span></a></span><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" lang="EN-GB">Kamailio
                  services –
                </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a
                    href="https://gilawa.com/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                      style="color:#0563C1" lang="EN-GB">https://gilawa.com</span></a></span><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
                  <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><b>From:</b>
                sr-users <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org"><sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org></a>
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joel Serrano<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:12 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sr-users@lists.kamailio.org"><sr-users@lists.kamailio.org></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [SR-Users] Understanding some usrloc
                modparams<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">I have
                    an installation using usrloc + db_mode=1.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">If I
                    want on db_mode=1 or db_mode=2 the expired contacts
                    to be cleaned up I have to enable the modparam
                    db_timer_clean:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><a
href="https://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/usrloc.html#usrloc.p.db_timer_clean"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/usrloc.html#usrloc.p.db_timer_clean</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">The
                    docs say:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">"<i>Enable
                      (1) or disable (0) cleaning of expired db records
                      on timer basis for db_mode WRITE-BACK and
                      WRITE-THROUGH. It uses the secondary timer
                      process.</i>"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">I have
                    the following doubts:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">1-
                    What does the reference "it uses
                    <b><i>the</i></b> secondary timer process" mean? Is
                    there a specific secondary timer just for this
                    purpose?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">2- Is 
                    #1 related to the modparam timer_procs? (so it uses
                    one of those when enabled?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">3-
                    Why/When would you need a timer_proces modparam with
                    a value higher than "1"? <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Joel.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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