19 Dec
2024
19 Dec
'24
12:09 p.m.
On 19 Dec 2024, at 17:49, Alex Balashov via sr-users
<sr-users(a)lists.kamailio.org> wrote:
Well, you can set up a cluster of background workers and use the normal http_client. That
will speed up the process to read from the network as the network client processes are
freed up by you suspending the transaction and continuing in a background process (which
you need many of). This will make life better in some cases, but not all.
But in high volume, I would not _depend_ on any TCP-based external process, regardless if
it’s HTTP or databases.
/O
On Dec 19, 2024, at 11:19 am, Alexis Fidalgo via
sr-users <sr-users(a)lists.kamailio.org> wrote:
Been there, done that :) async does not help in this scenario.
Killer here, as you mentioned, is wait, async moves the problem to the side only (learned
by testing)
:)
YES! You've just summarised the central thesis about async that I made in this blog
post:
https://blog.evaristesys.com/2016/02/15/tuning-kamailio-for-high-throughput…
TL;DR don't do HTTP queries from Kamailio. Just don’t