Asterisk Background performance test

Goal - to run at least 700 calls on this server.

Hardware

• Local LAN with 100mb cheap DLink switch
• Laptop to initiate calls over sipp
• Tested server:

HP Proliant DL160 G5 E5405
1 x Quad Core Xeon 2Ghz
2 Gb RAM
Asterisk 1.4.18.1
Centos 5.2

Asterisk configuration

For test standard /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tt-monkeys.gsm from HDD (not from RAM) was used.

sip.conf

[general]
context=playback_test
;rtptimeout=60  
;rtpholdtimeout=300

[1000]
type = friend
host = dynamic
username = 1000
secret = 1000
nat = no
context = playback_test
disallow = all
allow = alaw

extensions.conf

[playback_test]
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,2,Background(tt-monkeys)
exten => _X.,3,Goto(2)

sipp

./sipp -inf users.csv -sf uac_gsm.xml -i 192.168.0.130 -s 123 192.168.0.191

File:Uac gsm.xml <-- uac_gsm.xml file

Testing

Starting from 500 calls we were increasing calls in 20 cps rate (calls per second).

Stats can be seen on following screenshots. Accumulated stats are at the end.

At each step we dialed additionally with X-Pro to test how it sounds.

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Results