[SR-Users] Kamailio Registration load Issue

[Alex Balashov]

You might be running into semi-invisible/not widely publicised (but definitely very real) PPS limits on given instance sizes. 

On March 27, 2017 3:09:56 PM EDT, Jade SZ <jitterbuffer at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I am running a simple REGISTER load test on:
>
>1) Kamailio sever with 2 cores - mem 5G
>2) Kamailio server with 4 cores - mem 16G
>
>Both are EC2 instances.
>
>At -r = 500 i.e. 500 reg/sec sipP test works fine with very few
>re-trans.
>But when i increase it to 800 reg/sec it starts retransmissions in
>bulk.
>
>I don't see server's CPU, load-avg or memory shooting. Running
>everything
>by default, even using kamctl to start the instance. So I have not
>tuned
>any params yet.
>
>My main concern is how can I make server choke and get its actual
>capacity,
>and avoid these retransmissions as apparently kamailio is not even
>utilizing 2 cores and CPU usage is under 10 always.
>
>Results of both server is same i.e. 500 reg/sec max so I am sure there
>is
>some problem that needs a fix, but need some hints here.
>
>Also used multiple SIPp's to rule out if it is SIPp issue, but after
>500 I
>see same problem.
>
>
>Regards,
>JSZ


-- Alex

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