2006/3/10, Michal Matyska < michal@iptel.org>:

This seems to me quite understandable, the time is consumed while locating the
usrloc entry. Try to change the "SEQUENTIAL" order to "RANDOM" in the
SIPP injection file, I suppose you'd then get what you expected, equal CPU
usage during all the time the test runs. If not, please post it again.

Michal

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:57:36AM +0200, Teemu Harju wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I posted about this same subject to openser mailing list already, but since
> I haven't had response from there I'll try here. I guess the usrloc module
> and the core functionality is quite the same with ser and openser.
>
> I've been running some performance tests on my OpenSER box and while
> registering large number of users I faced some very strange problems. At
> least they seem strange to me, but I hope someone on this list would be able
> to shed some light on this.
>
> So, I use Openser 1.0.1 and I load test it using SIPp. I've done tests
> creating about 1000 registrations per second registering 300k-450k different
> users. Register rate is constat and for each register different user is
> used. What is strange to me that just about when 300k users have registered
> the CPU of the PC running the proxy hits 100% usage and messages start
> dropping. I made a nice image to illustrate my problem using Excel. Check it
> at http://www.teemuharju.net/wp-images/register_300k_users_at_1000rps.png .
>
> On this test I registered 300k different users at 1000 RPS and after
> registering those users the registering starts again from the beginning. As
> you can see from it the CPU usage rises constantly and drops immediately
> after I've registered 300k users and the registering starts again from the
> start. So then each user is being registered all over again, but still the
> CPU load grows. Does anyone have explanation for this? Why does the CPU
> usage grow based on the number of users registered? And why does it drop for
> a while when registering starts all over again? I've tried different usrloc
> modes, but there seems to be no difference. This one was done with having
> usrloc only in the memory. Shouldn't the CPU usage at constant register
> rate, be somewhat constant also? Has anyone else noticed the same problem?
> Could this be somehow explained or do I have something wrong with my system?
>
> Regards,
>
> Teemu
>
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