[asterisk-dev] Astricon: Serious Asterisk Testing

[Bradley]

Jeremy McNamara wrote:
> I have been given access to a Spirent Abacus for the duration of 
> Astricon.   I intend to put this box to good usage for the benefit of 
> Asterisk.
>
> Along with the Abacus, I intend to bring a couple/few mini-itx and 
> embedded platforms, so we can easily load Asterisk down and still 
> acquire debug information others will need to solve any problems.
>
> I am attempting to acquire a couple higher end machines (dual xeon or 
> perhaps a dual, dual-core system), for some serious high-load testing, 
> but I may not be able to acquire the appropriate hardware in time.
>
> If anyone already has any higher-end machine(s) they can let us abuse 
> for Astricon, let me know and I will ensure proper credit is given.
>
>
>
> We need to determine a set of tests to run.
>
> It is my intention to simulate a typical enterprise/provider 
> environment by having discreet components of the test operation - sip 
> proxy (ser), sbc, gateway, soft-switch.
>
> We will send various different types of common and uncommon traffic 
> patterns to the test system, so we can measure and report on the 
> performance of Asterisk on each component.
>
> I would also like to put Asterisk's SS7 implementation to some serious 
> testing, but very honestly I have limited SS7 skills at this time.
>
> The Abacus also supports H.323 and SCCP, so we should also dedicate 
> some time to these protocols as well.
>
>
> Lets discuss,
>
I have some perl which coordinates many asterisk machines making 
telephone calls to a single asterisk machine. Some of the graphs I 
generated can be found here:
http://www.strange.za.net/drapa/SmoothGraphs/

Shout if any of the information or perl is of use...

Bradley