I see, our script is a little more archaic, it runs a perl script and connects each time. Our alternative was to daemonize but as you clearly demonstrated it did no/little good. The purpose for our script is an aliases db, because I could never get usrloc to work correctly mainly. re: 1) Yes this has been my very problem, since my problem is periodic and not load related (??) leaving full debug on is very painful if not impossible especially when forked.. 2) My only alternative is to use ENUM lookups, most everything else would require an external process and/or writing a SER module (gah).. If you're using simple URI replacement then it's recommended of course to rewrite within SER, what kind of functions does your script perform? 3) I used sipp for testing everything, this was with and without the external hog process running. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Martinez [mailto:rmartinez@redvoiss.net] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:30 PM To: Matt Schulte; serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: RE: [Serusers] SER hung - Log Information? Interesting too. My "translate" script takes an average of 17ms to return the desired value. By HTTP requests it connect to another process in another machine, which have an "always open" connection with my database. So i don't need to open a new connection with my database every time an INVITE reach the server. BUT STILL DESPITE OF THIS, MY SER SEEMS TO FREEZE FOR SOME REASON. I have some questions. 1.-How to check if the bottle neck is in the exec_dset command?? 2.-If we decide to replace this command (exec_dset)for a function in another module, what module would be recommendable?, for example how the ENUM module could do this?. We have the "restriction" that we need to query our databes for the R-URI change, so the module that will acomplish this task needs to have connection with my database, maybe through radius, sql, etc.? 3.-You mention that you made some kind of "stress" test with your platform. You loaded it with 30000 call in one hour. How you did that? Does your exec_dset running at the same time?. Thanks. Any help will be highly appreciated. Ricardo.- limit?"