[SR-Users] best way to cope with peaks in traffic

[Alex Balashov]

If you want to rate-limit traffic below the throughout thresholds of the children, look at the pipelimit module. It would obviate the need for manual htable statekeeping. 


On 26 October 2014 15:23:27 GMT-04:00, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>Workers process SIP messages, which means both requests and replies.
>So, you can't use request-oriented tracking to make that decision. 
>
>The answers to your question are basically:
>
>1. Keep your call processing as fast and light as possible. 
>
>2. Use async methods. 
>
>Async methods only help so much, due to the strict timing tolerances of
>SIP, and real-time, delay-sensitive communication in general. The
>fundamental answer is basically #1--incur as little delay as possible. 
>
>
>On 26 October 2014 14:33:43 GMT-04:00, davy van de moere
><davy.van.de.moere at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Gents,
>>
>>assuming we don't use async methods (I know, it's against fashion),
>>eventually you'll end up in having some bottlenecks in your config...
>>
>>Now thanks to a lot of children you can easily work around this, a
>>maximum
>>of 32 children gives you already quite something, and if you use the
>>dispatcher, you can ramp that up to quite some capacity. ;)
>>
>>Now, there are moments where still limits are passed, so what would be
>>the
>>best way to keep your system healthy?
>>
>>I was thinking in the direction of using a hashtable value or $var to
>>keep
>>track of the children in use and e.g. if 31 children are used, refuse
>>to
>>process the 32th request (assuming 32 children are setup).  Would this
>>be a
>>valid strategy? Or am I overthinking?
>>
>>Grtz,
>>
>>Davy
>>
>>
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