[Serusers] Getting online users out of SER

[Greger V. Teigre]

The only way to know for sure that a user is online is to send an 
OPTIONS or PING message and see if you get a response OR implement presence.
Are you sure your SER forks?!
g-)

Sebastian Damm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently testing SER for running it in a quite large environment
> with about 40000 online users. I'd like to offer my users an
> online/offline status - at least for themselves, maybe also for users
> in their contacts.
>
> I have noticed that when operating SER in database mode every time it
> writes back the location to database it hangs and doesn't answer
> requests anymore. This situation is not acceptable, whenever this
> happens no REGISTERs, INVITEs, 200OKs or anything else passes the
> server and registering fails, calls don't get established a.s.o.
>
> I think a lot of you have an online/offline status, but which way do
> you go technically? One way would be to grab the contacts from the
> FIFO, but that solution doesn't seem to be suitable, too. The problem
> with that is, that only one process at a time can query the fifo, and
> at this time, other processes will hang, you'll have to start the query
> once again. I played around with the click2dial script and other fifo
> stuff and noticed how error-prone that is. Once the fifo didn't answer
> at all anymore and I had to restart SER.
>
> Is anyone running another solution for getting all or some contacts out
> of SER?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastian
>
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