Testing Kamailio On RaspberryPi 3

Stefan Mititelu has shared some statistics about stressing Kamailio on a Raspberry PI 3 device. All the relevant details were made available at:

• https://github.com/smititelu/rpi

Here are device’s characteristics

An over-clocked Raspberry PI 3 running Raspbian Stretch with a U3 MicroSD card.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/issue
 Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l
 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
 Linux raspberrypi 4.9.59-v7+ #1047 SMP Sun Oct 29 12:19:23 GMT 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /boot/config.txt
 ...
 total_mem=1024
 arm_freq=1300
 core_freq=500
 sdram_freq=500
 sdram_schmoo=0x02000020
 over_voltage=2
 sdram_over_voltage=2

His remarks on Kamailio’s sr-users mailing list:

The tests ran for 60 seconds, repeated a couple of times, and they were done in a LAN, using PI’s ethernet interface, running Kamailio 5.1.1.

1. REGISTER/200, __with db_text__
   – at 900 cps test did finish: all UAC registered; pi htop threads were ~15-20%
   – at 950 cps test did NOT finish: got “Overload warning” on my UAC/UAS SIPp testing machine
2. INVITE/180/200/PAUSE(3sec)/BYE/200, __with no media__
   – at 370 cps test did finish: all UAC->UAS calls completed; ~150 “180 Trying” Unexpected-Msg on UAC side; pi htop threads were ~50%
   – at 380 cps test did NOT finish: few(~5) UAC->UAS calls not completed; pi htop threads were ~50%

The results are really impressive (even if the used testing configs were really basic ones)!!!

Moreover, I think that I’ve reached the limit of my current SIPp testing machine, but not of PI’s.

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