[asterisk-dev] RFC: Capacity Study

[Alex Balashov]

Who is paying for this?

I always wanted to do this (and to some extent, TransNexus has, or were 
they testing MediaProxy?), but nobody's willing to fund it.  Time = money.

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
>   I'm going to put a test bed together to study some portions of
> Asterisk performance:
> 
> - SIP performance (total sessions, CPS, etc)
> - RTP performance (mainly packets per second and underlying network performance)
> - The impact of virtualization
> 
>   I'm focusing on SIP because it has more test tools available.  I
> also use it the most.
> 
>   I already have a general idea of what I'm going to tweak:
> 
> - ulimit/sysctl (obviously)
> - ethernet driver options (NAPI, Intel's ITR/etc, etc)
> - IRQ/SMP issues
> - Various virtualization tweaks (TBD)
> 
>   I'm doing this mostly to improve my understanding of the issues
> involved (especially interrupt issues, packets per second, and
> virtualization in general).  I'm looking for some guidance from the
> Asterisk community.  What other things can I test?  What other
> parameters can I tweak?  Any other ideas?
> 


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