[Serusers] SER performance bottleneck ?

[Libor Chocholaty]

Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>>>>>> Dragos Vingarzan <Dragos.Vingarzan at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
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>> Do you consider it realistic to produce load for millions of users with
>> just 1-2? I don't. What probably happens is that you get a lot of
>> inter-locking somewhere like in the registrar because you use just 2
>> users. So you could have 100 CPUs and gigs of RAM, but if you do not use
>> more users, it won't scale.
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>> I would say that you need to use ratios for calls/sec/users way smaller
>> than 1, while you now seem to be at about 1500 or so... This is highly
>> unrealistic and also not relevant.
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> This _is_ realistic in case SER is used as proxy on a path between
> e.g. vendor gateways. In that case it can have 0 (i.e. _zero_)
> "users" but thousands of calls per second.
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May be, but if you will have no users and you will only forward calls 
from trusted sources, then there will be no database lookups for 
registers and deregisters as in sipp uas/uac scenario.

Libor

> And, of course, this shall be relevant unless you're positioning
> it to "office PBX" which is definitely not direct SER niche.
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