It is a simple test that anybody can easily reproduce.
A lot of people are saying that OpenSER is a less stable, but dynamic
version of SER. Results say something else here.
"performance" should have no penalty over "stability", I would say.
This bug was not in the devel tree, but it is in the current SER
0.9.6 stable version for ~ 1 year.
In this case I would say it is not relevant how many CPS you have if
you cannot handle them correctly.
regards,
Bogdan
Klaus Darilion wrote:
This leads to one question:
Are there improvements to ser's stable branch since the fork, or is
it degradation in openser?
regards
klaus
Vaclav Kubart wrote:
> I'm sorry to nip in, but I tried to rerun the tests again and add more
> info into output as requested and add stable ser and CVS openser.
>
> I know that this test doesn't conform much to real life (for example
> generated callid/branch/tags differs only in a number, etc) but it can
> give at least an image about simple stateful forward.
>
> So, if anybody is interested:
>
>
http://www.iptel.org/~vku/performance/tm.serXopenser.correct/
>
> I tried the same once more with less iterations because there were some
> errors in log from openser speaking about low memory (I used -m to
> specify shared mem size but with 768M it still said errors, might be a
> memleak or did I anything wrong?). With 1M iterations it was without
> errors:
>
>
http://www.iptel.org/~vku/performance/tm.serXopenser.1M/
>
> Vaclav
>
> P.S. I have forgotten - SIPP was "Sipp v1.1, version 20060829, built
> Sep
> 5 2006, 15:07:25", I'm attaching simple patch which I have used.
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:48:12AM +0200, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
> wrote:
>
>> I love such "independent" and "very very useful" tests ...
one
>> selected the versions he liked, latest development of ser with
>> latest stable version of openser, the details about testing
>> scenarios are pretty limited. However these details are very very
>> insignificant, really.
>>
>> What matters is this particular case: what you tested is useless
>> and someone can better implement a tiny kernel module to perform
>> same job much faster that will make openser/ser trashed instantly
>> if that is their only usage. More important are the performances in
>> real world cases. I am not going to do comparison tests and reveal
>> numbers, I will let you do and hope make the results available.
>>
>> I will exemplify with just two common use cases:
>> A) ITSP where usrloc is required - to get the throughput from your
>> tests one needs to have over million of online users. Let me know
>> how SER is doing with loading them, I can bet that it takes several
>> minutes to start (so service down for a significat time) and lot to
>> lookup a record afterwards, do not forget to mention required
>> memory. Then we will see if the forwarding throughput is the
>> bottleneck.
>> B) carrier - heavy accounting needed - take the latest cvs
>> snapshots and test it, look at flexibility in same time and see if
>> the balance of throughput and features is satisfactory. Do not
>> forget that behind database should be redundant for a reliable
>> accounting storage.
>>
>> My conclusion and the point I wanted to underline is that
>> forwarding is not the bottleneck by far and so far in real-world
>> deployments -- or at least nobody reported in openser mailing
>> lists. Once it will be, for sure there will be effort and focus to
>> optimize it. I don't even bother to check the scenarios,
>> environment and test results you had, because makes no sense today.
>>
>> It is more important to look at the results gave, for example, here
>> by an independent party:
>>
http://openser.org/pipermail/users/2006-November/007777.html
>>
>> With a real config and clustering system the performance of a box
>> was 300calls per second -- having at least 5 database accesses!!!.
>> If you need double you can add one more hardware, without extra
>> configuration overhead, just plug and play. And that is stable
>> version of OpenSER since July this year (btw, for those who keep
>> saying that OpenSER does not focus on stability, just check the CVS
>> and see the number of bugs encountered with this release, maybe you
>> can change your opinion), and you can have a safe environment
>> distributed geographically where each hardware can undertake the
>> traffic from the others on the fly. With single box crashing
>> because of different independent reasons (hardware failure, power
>> outages ...) you get no service ... with three boxes you can serve
>> huge number of active subscribers in peak hours and have failover
>> support, so service availability 100%. I am sure most of the people
>> look now how to build reliable platforms that scale very easy and
>> can be distributed around the world, with a bunch of useful
>> features -- simple first line replacement is not the business case
>> for VoIP anymore.
>>
>> We didn't try at OpenSER to get a airplane when we have to drive
>> city streets, we looked to get feature rich and reliable
>> application for its use cases. I would propose to have focus on
>> making own applications better than trying to show the other one is
>> worse.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>> PS. You can use stateless forwarding to get even better results,
>> the usefulness will be the same.
>>
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