[asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card

2007-08-28 Thread Erik Anderson
Hello all - I'm about to deploy an asterisk server here at work. Before deploying, I'd like to do an extended load test on the system. I currently have T1 crossover cables connecting ports 1->2 and 3->4. Would there be an easy way to script generating a bunch of calls across these spans? I envi

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card

2007-08-28 Thread Brian West
Having calls connected for that duration is worthless testing... What you need to do is call setup and tear down many times per second... I recommend trying to accomplish 20-30cps at 1ms to 10ms variable durations. That will expose any bugs quickly. And that my friend is how you expose any

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Erik Anderson
On 8/28/07, Brian West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly are your needs? I can provide you some sipp scripts > that might help you. Brian - thanks for the reply. If you read my email, I believe I make it fairly clear what my needs are. I have a 4-port Sangoma PRI card installed. Crosso

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Totaro
Erik Anderson wrote: > On 8/28/07, Brian West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What exactly are your needs? I can provide you some sipp scripts >> that might help you. >> > > Brian - thanks for the reply. If you read my email, I believe I make > it fairly clear what my needs are. I have a

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Totaro
Erik Anderson wrote: > On 8/28/07, Brian West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What exactly are your needs? I can provide you some sipp scripts >> that might help you. >> > > Brian - thanks for the reply. If you read my email, I believe I make > it fairly clear what my needs are. I have a

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Erik Anderson
On 8/28/07, Steve Totaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another more creative tool would be to place an ad in the Penny Saver or > whatever your local equivalent is for a "free 42 inch LCD TV, you haul" > and list your number. I bet that would generate alot of calls. You could > put them through and

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Erik Anderson
On 8/28/07, Steve Totaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, you seemed to miss Brian's main point, keeping calls up is not > going to tax your box or prove anything really, you want to create as > many short calls as possible. Run BOINC in the background for a CPU > burn-in test. Well - with this

Re: [asterisk-users] Load testing/burn-in for Sangoma quad PRI card (off list)

2007-08-28 Thread Matt Florell
I use the VICIDIAL performance testing setup to do this, it's a bit of work to get running just for a test, but it's very good at simulating lots of small calls over PRIs and it makes very pretty graphs of system load. MATT--- On 8/28/07, Erik Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/28/07, Ste