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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:49 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Need more meetme users -- hitting some limi Reply with quote

In article <alpine.DEB.2.10.1403211727570.13768@ws>,
Steve Edwards <asterisk.org@sedwards.com> wrote:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Steve Edwards wrote:

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Googling 'dahdi pseudo channel limit modprobe' showed the secret sauce.

Oops. Guess I should complete the thread...

You can set the DAHDI pseudo channel limit in /etc/modules.conf:

options dahdi max_pseudo_channels=x

or you can set it from the command line like:

echo x >/sys/module/dahdi/parameters/max_pseudo_channels

It appears you need 1 DAHDI pseudo channel per caller and 2 pseudo
channels per meetme.

To be more exact, you need one DAHDI channel of *some kind* per caller.

For DAHDI hardware channels (e.g. PRI), Meetme can mix directly from
the channel and doesn't need a pseudo too.

For VoIP channels (and a few other cases), Meetme needs to route the
call through a DAHDI pseudo channel to give it data to mix.

And yes, two pseudos per meetme - one for recording from and one for
playing announcements into the conference.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:38 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Need more meetme users -- hitting some limi Reply with quote

2014-03-21 18:54, Steve Totaro skrev:
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I found below here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe

If you have too many conferences, one CPU may not be able to mix all the
audio and you will have audio problems even if there are 7+ other CPUs
that are essentially idle while waiting for one CPU to mix everything.
You should be able to handle 512 conference participants on a modern
server system without problem. The current trunk of *DAHDI linux limits
the number of open pseudo channels to 512 for this reason*. [1]

Thanks,
Steve T

I would check /proc/interrupts also. On some distros irq's are not
balanced by default and are all hitting the same core.

On Debian I had to install the irqbalance package and the load was
spread across the cores.

Dahdi is still a single thread thought.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 4:29 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Need more meetme users -- hitting some limi Reply with quote

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:26:22AM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Steve Totaro wrote:

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I found below here:
 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe

If you have too many conferences, one CPU may not be able to mix all the
audio and you will have audio problems even if there are 7+ other CPUs
that are essentially idle while waiting for one CPU to mix everything. You
should be able to handle 512 conference participants on a modern server
system without problem. The current trunk of DAHDI linux limits the number
of open pseudo channels to 512 for this reason. [1]

With 312 calls distributed across 100 meetmes, 'top' shows 1 core at 32%, 1
core at 6% and the rest basically idle.

So it looks like meetme() is still a single CPU application, but I have
plenty of CPU headroom.

Coincidentally, 512 is my target. Any clues on how to get 200 more?

Steve,

If you're looking to reduce the CPU overhead of processing meetme
conferences, this email from awhile ago may be of some help:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.devel/51750/focus=51777

Cheers,
Shaun

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:48 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Need more meetme users -- hitting some limi Reply with quote

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Shaun Ruffell wrote:

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If you're looking to reduce the CPU overhead of processing meetme
conferences, this email from awhile ago may be of some help:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.devel/51750/focus=51777

Thanks for the clue. I can hit my target of 512 on an Intel E3-1240v3 with
'pre-packaged' Asterisk so I'm good for now.

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