[Kamailio-Users] serial forking : is hash table autoexpire working ?

[Aurelien Grimaud]

Hi,

I am using openser to route requests towards differents Interactive 
Voice Response (IVR).
For this, and to manage failures, maintenance a flexible way, I use 
serial forking.

For each requests (after loose routing process), all possible 
destinations are retrieved from 'location' with a modified lookup.
The first one is pushed to DURI, the other ones are stored in AVP.
An on_failure_route is set to get next destination if any.
fr_timer is 5 secs
fr_inv_timer is 120 secs.
Therefore, if an IVR does not response at all within 5 secs, the serial 
forking mechanism is triggered.

Any subsequent message *MUST* go to same IVR, this is the 
record_route/loose_route processing, and everything is ok for ACK or BYE.

My problem is for requests that does not match loose_routing.
- What about the initial INVITE being retransmitted ?
- What about a CANCEL ?

In those cases, the request goes to another IVR which handles it genuinely.
For INVITE retransmission, the calling uac will get two different 
answers. If lucky, one will be canceled.
For CANCEL, the message will be rejected by all destinations but the one 
which expects it (if lucky).

To avoid this, I used dynamic avp to set nexthop for a specific callid, 
as soon as nexthop was chosen.
These avp were stored in database and reloaded from ...
This is really slowing down the system for a little annoyance ...

With kamailio 1.5.0 I use new module hash table to store next hop.
nexthop is cleaned on BYE, CANCEL and failures.

To handle runaway calls, the autoexpire parameter of hash table is a 
great thing. Unfortunately It does not seem to do the job.
All entries stays indefinitely in table (as shown in sht_print)

Do you think these serial forking issues (re-INVITE, CANCEL) and all the 
work around (nexthop hash table) it need is useful ?
Anyone want to share its serial forking management ?
What about the autoexpire parameter for hash table ?
Is it ok or did I miss something ?

loadmodule "htable.so"
modparam("htable", "htable", "nexthop=>size=4;autoexpire=120;")

Aurelien