tcp_async is not used (not enabled) in the Kamailio configuration, but looks like this setting is enabled by default.

https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/cookbooks/5.4.x/core#tcp_async
OS

[root@host ~]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Stream"
VERSION="8"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Stream 8"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="CentOS Stream"


Kamailio version
Here is 5.8.2 release with small customisation

[root@host ~]# kamailio -v
version: kamailio 5.8.2 (aarch64/linux) 6c8b8b
flags: USE_TCP, USE_TLS, USE_SCTP, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, MEM_JOIN_FREE, Q_MALLOC, F_MALLOC, TLSF_MALLOC, DBG_SR_MEMORY, USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT-NOSMP, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER, USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLOCKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES, TLS_PTHREAD_MUTEX_SHARED
ADAPTIVE_WAIT_LOOPS 1024, MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_SEND_BUFFER_SIZE 262144, MAX_URI_SIZE 1024, BUF_SIZE 65535, DEFAULT PKG_SIZE 8MB
poll method support: poll, epoll_lt, epoll_et, sigio_rt, select.
id: 6c8b8b
compiled on 09:10:30 Sep 12 2024 with gcc 8.5.0




On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM Arsen Semenov <arsperger@gmail.com> wrote:
do you have tcp_async = yes (it should be enabled by default) ?
What OS do you use? can you please print kamailio -v

On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM Sergey Safarov via sr-users <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org> wrote:
I have modified the command
and for my case, it will be like

ss -n 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'

For the second command, the output will be like

[root@bcf-e-0 ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,9.980ms,4)  
[root@
test ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,8.690ms,4)  
[root@
test ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,7.230ms,4)  
[root@
test ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,6.140ms,4)  
[root@
test ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,5.050ms,4)  
[root@test ~]# ss -o -n state syn-sent 'dport 5060 or dport 5061 or sport 5060 or sport 5061'
Netid                 Recv-Q                 Send-Q                                 Local Address:Port                                   Peer Address:Port                 Process                
tcp                   0                      1                                      100.85.64.198:48542                                       8.8.8.8:5060                  timer:(on,3.860ms,4)



On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM Henning Westerholt via sr-users <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org> wrote:
Hello Alex,

indeed, this is easier to analyse with the usual system management tools.

Small addition, for TCP and TLS there is actually a distributor or main process inside Kamailio:

$ kamcmd ps |grep tcp |grep main
18439   tcp main process

$ netstat -nap |grep 5060 | grep 18439
tcp         0      0 116.203.XXX.XXX:5060    0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      18439/kamailio
tcp         0      0 116.203.XXX.XXX:5060     0.0.0.0:*              LISTEN      18439/kamailio
tcp         0      0 127.0.0.1:5060          0.0.0.0:*                       LISTEN      18439/kamailio
tcp6       0      0 2a01:4f8:XXXX:XXXX::5060 :::*                     LISTEN      18439/kamailio

Cheers,

Henning

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Balashov via sr-users <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
> Sent: Samstag, 4. Januar 2025 18:01
> To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
> Cc: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
> Subject: [SR-Users] Re: children monitoring
>
> It's hard for children to introspect on and report their own busy status, and
> there's no distributor/supervisor process that has that kind of awareness
> about the children[1].
>
> `ss -nl` (or `netstat` equivalent) will show you, in the RecvQ column, the
> number of packets (UDP) or connections (TCP) that are stacked up and going
> unreplied by any child. This figure should be 0 or substantially 0 if things are
> going well.
>
> -- Alex
>
> [1] Notwithstanding the recent 6.x change that optionally adds such a
> process.
>
> > On Jan 4, 2025, at 2:31 am, Sergey Safarov via sr-users <sr-
> users@lists.kamailio.org> wrote:
> >
> > If TCP children are busy,
> > Please correct me if I am wrong if the remote IP is not responding via TCP
> protocol, this leads to a timeout and this child is busy.
> > If many remote endpoints are not reachable via TCP this can lead to the case
> when half or more children are by timeout operations.
> >
> > I think required to monitor how many children are busy.
> > Is it possible to get such info using kamcmd utility, statistics module, or
> xprom module.
> >
> > Sergey
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