Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-22 Thread Robert B
Dale, In a subsequent email to the group, I found that the vast, vast majority of resources are tied up in Java. Also, due to a strange configuration in Sun's default jvm.cfg, java tried to allocate an absurd amount of memory if the server has 2gb or more RAM. OpenVZ is a container-based, not

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-22 Thread Dale Worley
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 06:56 -0600, Robert B wrote: > My situation is that I am attempting to overcome the non-existence of > "true" multi-tenant support (not meant as an insult) via running > multiple sipXecs PBXs inside of OpenVZ containers. I was drawn to > sipXecs over Asterisk for a variety

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Robert B
Matt, Yeah -- I'd never use less than 1GB. But here's the thing that I feel might have given you the wrong idea about what I am doing: HostContainer Physical256 2048 Swap17920 OpenVZ does not give the container any swap space. It can't do that because it's n

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Matt White
I'd be careful running sipx with anything less than 1GB. We have never had success with anything less than 1GBeven with a small 5 user environment. After a while service like voicemail will slow until they don't respond. Like other have noted, sipx is memory hungry. If your looking for m

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Robert B
Tony, My point is that OpenVZ containers will not show *any* swap space available or in use, because there isn't any. There can't be because containers don't work like that. If this were a KVM or VMware virtual machine (something powered by a hypervisor of sorts), obviously there's be a swap p

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Tony Graziano
984.8426 Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ - Original Message - From: Robert B To: Tony Graziano Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Sent: Sat Nov 21 12:07:42 2009 Subject: Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage... Tony,

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Robert B
Tony, Okay -- working theory here. The thing in my environment which is "different" is that I am using OpenVZ. I started running into issues with *fresh* installs immediately failing on service start-up. All kinds of Java JVM memory allocation errors. First of all, with Sun's java is execut

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Tony Graziano
The voicemail/media server aspect can be very heavy from a resources standpoint. Work is ongoing in 4.1 to replace the current voicemail system (will then utilize freeswitch), which should provide lighter resource usage "I think". On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Robert B wrote: > Tony, > > Than

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-21 Thread Robert B
Tony, Thanks for the reply! I guess what concerns me is that the memory allocation, in my case, is instantaneous. It doesn't take a day or two, more like a *second* or two. :) My situation is that I am attempting to overcome the non-existence of "true" multi-tenant support (not meant as an ins

Re: [sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Graziano
To a certain extent, within a few hours or days, it is not at all unusual for sipx to assume use of 100% of your available RAM and keep it there. I remember asking this ages ago and got a great explanation from Dale, but I can't easily find that message. I think it caused so many unnecessary quest

[sipx-users] Question regarding resource usage...

2009-11-20 Thread Robert B
I've been trying out sipXecs and as is common these days I've been doing so in a variety of virtual environments: 1. VMware ESX 3.5 and vSphere 4 2. VMware Workstation 3. KVM 4. OpenVZ (container "virtualization") on CentOS or Proxmox (Debian 5) My question is: Does this *really* need this much