Liviu, That is an impressive improvement. I would be interested in some details on how to properly size for use with HP_MALLOC (I assume this would be the amount of shared memory for opensips?). Can this be gauged from the shmem statistics running under f_malloc?
Regards, Ryan Bullock On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Liviu Chircu <li...@opensips.org> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > The limitation of the classic OpenSIPS allocators is that they scale > poorly both with the scripting logic (more logic -> more mallocs -> more > contention), with hardware (the allocation is completely serial), and with > incoming traffic (again, they are serial!). > > When discussing CPU performance, the scripting logic itself has a big > impact. Just write a dummy route, and you're likely to be able to handle > 10k cps with the existing code. > > In the scenario we've optimized, the gains were almost *5x* on a 40-core > machine (went up to 20k cps), compared to the F_MALLOC allocator. The > effective gain would have probably been even bigger, had the logic been > more complex. > > However, the new allocator has no defragmentation support - it needs to be > reworked. So if you don't estimate the load on your server well enough... > you'll get core dumps as a reward! > > NB: as you might have expected, the processes did not have to handle any > blocking operations. > > Best regards, > > Liviu Chircu > OpenSIPS Developerhttp://www.opensips-solutions.com > > On 03/24/2014 06:46 PM, Ryan Bullock wrote: > > This is an exciting release! The new memory allocator looks really > interesting. Are there any numbers showing how its performance compares to > the current? > > Great work! > > > ~Ryan Bullock > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu > <bog...@opensips.org>wrote: > >> Hello everyone! >> >> The OpenSIPS Project is proud to announce the release of OpenSIPS version >> 1.11 (beta)! >> >> We would like to thank the OpenSIPS community for all of their hard and >> diligent work in making this release possible. We could never have done it >> without you! >> >> Special thanks go out to Ovidiu Sas, Walter Doekes, Damien Sandrs, Nick >> Altmann, Brett Nemeroff, Ryan Bullock (and many others) for your amazing >> contribution on this release. We truly appreciate you! >> >> Building on our industry ready platform, we're excited to introduce many >> new features and updates. But also we've continued to make inroads in >> developing an easier to use OpenSIPS. >> >> Version 1.11 brings with it enhancements to the core, script handling, >> and many important modules. >> >> The OpenSIPS core has received a new memory allocator to increase >> performance. It's tunable and provides fine-grained locking! >> >> We've also heard your requests on improving scripting capabilities. Say >> hello to the SCRIPT_HELPER module and to the "for-each" statement! The >> learning curve will not be so steep again! >> >> We've also introduced 4 new modules in this release... >> >> - B2B_SCA module providing new shared call appearance features >> - CALL_CENTER module that introduces call queue features >> - MI_JSON module to encode data in JSON format over HTTP for the MI >> Interface commands >> - SCRIPT_HELPER module to simplify the script/configuration for beginners >> >> In all, too many features to list. However you can view them all by >> visiting the version page at: >> http://www.opensips.org/About/Version-1-11-0 >> >> Again, we are excited about all the new changes version 1.11 delivers. We >> continue to appreciate all the feedback and help from the community. >> >> We still have many things to be done to get to the stable release (in ~1 >> month), like improving the documentation, keep working on fixing bugs, >> excessive testing and others. >> >> We're always listening to your requests, so never be shy in making one! >> >> >> Many thanks, >> The OpenSIPS Project Team >> >> -- >> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu >> OpenSIPS Founder and Developer >> http://www.opensips-solutions.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.opensips.org >> http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing > listDevel@lists.opensips.orghttp://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.opensips.org > http://lists.opensips.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > >
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