FW: Re: Scalability in NIST

"Francisco Javier Tellez Vaquero" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.voip.nist-sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>


>From: "M. Rangnathan" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Discussion list for the JAIN(tm) SIP API" 
><[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Scalability in NIST
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 04:18:18 -0400
>
>Fran,
>
>The implementation uses threads - you can pre-configure a thread pool
>size or have an unlimited supply of  threads.For UDP transport, if you
>have no limit on thread pool size, a new thread is spawned per request.
>Locks are not held for significant periods of time. Other than that, the
>other source of serialization is that the NIST implementation holds a
>per transaction semaphore when the listener is executing to ensure
>integrity of the Transaction state machine. Experiments have shown
>decent scalability 1 processor achieved something like 15 caps and 4
>processors achieved 50 caps at one point of time. The performance should
>have improved since then, however, your milage may vary. There are some
>obvious optimizations I wish I had the time to attempt (such as the way
>in which messages are being converted to String, lazy parsing etc. which
>can significantly improve performance). Continue this thread on the
>nist-sip mailing list if you have an interest. This discussion list is
>only for the API and not for the NIST implementation thereof.
>
>Ranga
>
>
>Francisco Javier Tellez Vaquero wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I'd like to know what about scalability with NIST. If we obtain, for
>>example, 50cps with 2 cpu's, if we increase the number of CPU's to 4,
>>are we
>>going to obtain near 100cps?
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Fran.
>>
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>
>
>--
>M. Ranganathan
>
>Advanced Networking Technologies Division,
>National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
>100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
>tel:301 975 3664 , fax:301 590 0932 http://w3.antd.nist.gov/
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