[SR-Users] Kamailio stability/timing problem w.r.t. registrations?

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 13:54:07 CET 2013


Hello,

thanks for reporting back, it's good to know that is not an issue in our 
Makefile.

Cheers,
Daniel

On 12/12/13 11:13, Sotas Development wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have solved this issue now. The problem was the wrong 
> interpretation of the Kamailio Makefile.defs makefile;
>
> The ARCH script variable was set to a wrong string by our higher level 
> makefile. Ea; for powerPC, Kamilio.defs expects 'ppc' as the value 
> while the higher level makefile sets the ARCH variable to 'powerpc'. 
> So Kamailio was compiled with wrong and missing GCC arguments. Also 
> some C-defines were not set correctly which resulted in linking wrong 
> 'locking' routines, like atomic_unknown.h. Instead atomic_ppc.h should 
> be linked/compiled.
>
> Thanks for your support anyway.
>
> Best regards,
> Orhan Yilmaz
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla 
> <miconda at gmail.com <mailto:miconda at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Attaching with gdb and getting the backtrace (as Ovidiu said),
>     will be very useful
>
>     The function futex_wait_queue_me() is from kernel, so it might be
>     an operation from the kernel about reading the udp packages. So we
>     cannot tell without the full trace if a kamailio function is
>     blocking the futex or is other standard library function.
>
>     I wanted to mention also that poll methods are for tcp only, for
>     udp kamailio uses recvfrom().
>
>     Can you also provide the output for 'kamailio -I' (that's upper
>     case i)?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Daniel
>
>
>
>     On 11/27/13 4:44 PM, Ovidiu Sas wrote:
>
>         Try to attach gdb to the kamailio processes and run a full
>         backtrace.
>
>         Regards,
>         Ovidiu Sas
>
>         On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Sotas Development
>         <sotasdev at gmail.com <mailto:sotasdev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             In the mean time we have gathered more information on this
>             problem:
>
>             As given below, kamailio stops grabbing UDP SIP messages
>             (SIP registrations)
>             after running a while on an embedded ARM and PPC platform
>             (which runs linux
>             2.6.33 kernel). Some times the hangup occures within hours
>             and some times
>             after couple of days running.
>
>             NETSTAT OUTPUT:
>             root# netstat -pl | grep kam
>             udp   1047968      0 (null):sip  (null):*
>             8416/kamailio
>             raw        0      0 (null):255              (null):*      
>                      255
>             8416/kamailio
>             unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING 755205
>             8429/kamailio
>             /tmp/kamailio_ctl
>
>             Kamailio is started with the following options = -m 4 -n 3
>             -f <cfg> -D
>
>             Other relevant info:
>             - When Kamailio hangs, I also noticed that the flag
>             "inuse_transactions" has
>             always the value of '1'. Readout with "kamctl monitor".
>             - A simple cat to /proc/<kamailio_pid>/wchan gives us the
>             function:
>             futex_wait_queue_me.
>             - All possible polling methods are used with -W parameter
>             (sigio_rt, poll,
>             select etc) during these tests. Non of these options did
>             solve this problem.
>
>             I hope the additional info will clarify more. Thanks in
>             advance.
>
>             Best regards,
>             Orhan Yilmaz
>
>
>
>             On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Ovidiu Sas
>             <osas at voipembedded.com <mailto:osas at voipembedded.com>> wrote:
>
>                 In a previous e-mail, you posted a warning that you
>                 had while compiling:
>                 "no native memory barrier implementations, falling
>                 back to slow lock
>                 based workarround"
>                 which means that you are already running without
>                 atomic locks.
>
>                 Regards,
>                 Ovidiu Sas
>
>                 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Sotas Development
>                 <sotasdev at gmail.com <mailto:sotasdev at gmail.com>>
>                 wrote:
>
>                     Hi,
>
>                     Here's an update of this topic. We've tried again
>                     with the latest stable
>                     version 4.0.4. Unfortunately the problem still exists.
>
>                     In mails above it is mentioned to use kamailio
>                     without atomic locks. How
>                     do
>                     we this (e.g. which makefile options)?
>
>                     Kind regards,
>
>                     Bert
>                     (on behalf of Michiel Veldkamp)
>
>
>
>                     On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Ovidiu Sas
>                     <osas at voipembedded.com <mailto:osas at voipembedded.com>>
>                     wrote:
>
>                         4.0 (current trunk) is in code freeze.  I
>                         would suggest to test the
>                         trunk version (next 4.0).
>                         Even openser 1.3 requires patches to be
>                         properly cross compiled.
>
>                         Regards,
>                         Ovidiu Sas
>
>                         --
>                         VoIP Embedded, Inc.
>                         http://www.voipembedded.com
>
>                         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>                         From: Sotas Development <sotasdev at gmail.com
>                         <mailto:sotasdev at gmail.com>>
>                         Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM
>                         Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Kamailio
>                         stability/timing problem w.r.t.
>                         registrations?
>                         To: "SIP Router - Kamailio (OpenSER) and SIP
>                         Express Router (SER) -
>                         Users Mailing List"
>                         <sr-users at lists.sip-router.org
>                         <mailto:sr-users at lists.sip-router.org>>
>
>
>                         Hi Ovidiu,
>
>                         Thanks for the warning! We did not yet have
>                         much success running the
>                         current master branch, though this may well be
>                         a resource problem on
>                         the target platform.
>
>                         For the moment, we decided to switch back to
>                         openser 1.3.5 and wait
>                         for the official 4.0 release.
>
>                         Regards,
>                         Michiel Veldkamp
>
>
>                         On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Ovidiu Sas
>                         <osas at voipembedded.com
>                         <mailto:osas at voipembedded.com>>
>                         wrote:
>
>                             If you are running the stable version,
>                             there's need for heavy
>                             Makefile
>                             patching in order to properly cross
>                             compile (not to include and link
>                             to host libs).
>                             The trunk has everything fixed and it's
>                             cross-compiling properly for
>                             most of the modules.
>                             Make sure that your binaries are properly
>                             cross compiled.
>
>                             Depending on your ARM CPU, atomic locks
>                             may or may not work.
>                             I tested openser without atomic locks
>                             (using regular locks) and it
>                             worked fine.
>
>                             Regards,
>                             Ovidiu Sas
>
>
>                             --
>                             VoIP Embedded, Inc.
>                             http://www.voipembedded.com
>
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