[SR-Users] Kamailio ​ds_ping_interval Performance

Atul Thosar atulthosar at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 08:01:57 CEST 2018


Any pointers, suggestions.

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​Thanks,
Atul Thosar



On 8 April 2018 at 17:23, Atul Thosar <atulthosar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for your responses.
>
>
> I am new to Kamailio, so appreciate if some one can help me with sample
> code where kamailio routes call to another FreeSWITCH server if 1st
> FreeSWITCH server does not respond in some time, say 3 sec. Btw I have a
> query on this approach. Consider a following scenario -
>
> 0. kamailio is configured w/ 2 FreeSWITCH servers in dispatcher and with
> configuration where on not receiving response to INVITE in 3 sec, kamailio
> will forward the call to another FreeSWITCH server.
> 1. kamailio receives INVITE and forwards INVITE to FreeSWITCH #1
> 2. FreeSWITCH #1 receives INVITE, but 100 trying response could not reach
> to kamailio bec of network break, say for 4 sec.
> 3. So After 3 sec, since kamailio does not receive any response from
> FreeSWITCH #1, it forwards INVITE to FreeSWITCH #2
> 4. FreeSWITCH #2 responds with 200 OK and kamailio receives it.
> 5. After 4 sec, when network recovers, FreeSWITCH #1 sends 200 OK to
> kamailio. How kamailio would behave here? Will it drops the call w/
> FreeSWITCH #1?
>
>
> --
> ​Thanks,
> Atul Thosar
>
>
>
> On 7 April 2018 at 21:46, Julien Chavanton <jchavanton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would set it to a low value to make sure you avoid sending calls a
>> Freeswitch server facing problems, in the case of Freeswitch the same GW
>> will also handle media, if it is having hardtime repliyng to SIP OPTIONS it
>> will very likely have problem handling the media.
>>
>> It may also get worst during the call even stop responsding and loose
>> transaction in progress or in dialog transactions later like session timers
>> and BYEs.
>>
>> Off loading it may able help other calls already using it.
>>
>>
>> You may push your strategy further thinking about :
>>
>> - The risk is that you run out of GW, could be handled when ds_select is
>> returning nothing.
>> - Another side effect, would be that you are sending more traffic to
>> other GW, they must be able to handle the extra load.
>>
>> In kamailio 5 there is a new algorithm that behaves better when one GW is
>> put out of service.
>>
>> “11” - use relative weight based load distribution. You have to set the
>> attribute 'rweight' per each address in destination set. Active host usage
>> probability is rweight/(SUM of all active host rweights in destination
>> group).
>>
>> Regards
>> Julien
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Atul Thosar <atulthosar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I am using Kamailio
>>> ​*​*
>>> *v4.4.x* to load balanced traffic to FreeSWITCH servers. I have query
>>> regarding ds_ping_interval and ds_probing_threshold. We have very high
>>> traffic (around 200-400
>>> ​ (CPS)​
>>> calls per sec) hitting on Kamailio which then distribute it to 2-3
>>> FreeSWITCH servers.
>>> ​ ​
>>> What is the optimal value should I set to ds_ping_interval and
>>> ds_probing_threshold?
>>>
>>> If I set
>>> ​​
>>> ds_ping_interval=2 and
>>> ​​
>>> ds_probing_threshold=1 then in every 2 sec, I would come to know if my
>>> ​​
>>> FreeSWITCH server is down/up. But by setting such low values, I afraid
>>> there would
>>> ​be ​
>>> lot of SIP traffic on network.
>>> ​ If I set high (say
>>>>>> ds_probing_threshold=5) then I may loose high number of calls (200 CPS,
>>> I will loose 1000 calls) in case
>>>>>> FreeSWITCH server is down. ​
>>>
>>>
>>> As I said earlier we have very high traffic hitting on Kamailio, can't
>>> kamailio use INVITE itself to probe FreeSWITCH server is down/up? In case
>>> of low traffic can't it switch over to OPTION mechanism?
>>>
>>> --
>>> ​Thanks in Advance​
>>> ,
>>> ​​
>>> Atul
>>> ​​
>>> ​​
>>> ​​
>>>
>>>
>>>
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