I've been working with this also, and I don't understand the decision
process that OpenSER uses to select its UDP buffer size.
1. The system default is 128 Kb. When I start OpenSER without changing any
settings, it uses a 128 Kb buffer size.
2. I changed the OS buffer to 256 kb (sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=262144).
OpenSER starts, and says:
INFO:core:probe_max_receive_buffer: using a UDP receive buffer of 255 kb
OK, so far so good.
3. So next I set the OS buffer to 1 Mb (sysctl -w
net.core.rmem_max=1048576). I did not set the MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE or use
-b. Openser starts and says:
INFO:core:probe_max_receive_buffer: using a UDP receive buffer of 512 kb
Hmmm, that's strange....
4. I start Openser with -b 1048576. Openser says:
INFO:core:probe_max_receive_buffer: using a UDP receive buffer of 2048 kb
2 Mb? The OS limit is 1 Mb... That can't be right.
5. I've been fiddling with various numbers for -b, and if I use 1024,
Openser says:
INFO:core:probe_max_receive_buffer: using a UDP receive buffer of 124 kb
6. If I use -b 1024000, Openser says:
INFO:core:probe_max_receive_buffer: using a UDP receive buffer of 2000 kb
So now I'm confused. I can't get Openser to give me a UDP buffer size of 1
Mb, it seems to settle on either 512 Kb or 2 Mb. Am I missing something?
This is with 1.3.2.
Michael Young
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)lists.openser.org
[mailto:users-bounces@lists.openser.org] On Behalf Of Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:37 AM
To: Carsten Bock
Cc: users(a)lists.openser.org
Subject: Re: [OpenSER-Users] UDP Buffer Size / OpenSER / Linux
Hi Carsten,
MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE (or -b cl param) is used only as upper limit when auto
discovery/setting the socket buffer.
Regards,
Bogdan
Carsten Bock wrote:
Hi Bogdan,
i have another question regarding the UDP buffer size:
If we set the UDP-Buffer of the system to, let's say 1 MByte: Do we also
have to edit MAX_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE? What happens, if we don't? Looking at
udp_server.c it seems like this value is ignored...
Thank you,
Carsten
Am Dienstag, den 25.03.2008, 12:53 +0200 schrieb Bogdan-Andrei Iancu:
> Hi Klaus, Hi Carsten,
>
> Setting a large buffer for the UDP socket will not solve the problem of
> slow openser processing, but will solve the problem of temporary
> overloads due a short traffic peek or due short openser blocking in an
> synchronous op (like DNS or DB). In such corner cases, the buffering in
> the kernel socket will avoid message dropping.
>
> Regards,
> Bogdan
>
> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>
>> Carsten Bock schrieb:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> short question:
>>> Can anybody give me a hint regarding the Linux UDP-Buffer size? Are
>>> there any known good values for this or is the default value (128k) of
>>> Linux sufficient? I've read, regarding other SIP-Systems (namely IBM
SIP
>>
Servlets and Communigate pro), the recommendation to increase the
>> UDP-Buffer-size to 3 or even 4 MByte....
>> Are there any recommended / known best values for heavy load OpenSER
>> Installations?
>>
>>
> IMO these values are too high. If the server is for any reason to slow
> to handle the load and the buffer fills up, then it might happen that
> the transactions are already timeout in the UAC when the SIP proxy
> starts processing the requests. If the proxy is overloaded IMO the
> requests should be dropped instead of queuing them for too long time.
>
> regards
> klaus
>
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