Thanks, that puts my performance worry to rest. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Alex Balashov <abalas...@evaristesys.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2015 12:08 PM, Jayanth Acharya wrote: > > I am new to Kamilio (and SIP in general), but a quick research tells >> that I've to configure Kamilio to run in the transaction stateful mode, >> which in turn brings down it's performance. Is that correct ? >> > > No, not really. :-) This is true, strictly speaking, in a purely formal, > computational sense, because maintaining state does entail more overhead. > However, the advice to limit use of transaction-stateful mode for > performance reasons really harks back to a different time in the evolution > of computing hardware. With modern CPUs this difference is not significant, > and Kamailio's internal architecture is still very performance-oriented. > > Moreover, I would say 90%+ of useful uses of Kamailio, such as this one, > require transaction state. There's not much that can be done just by > routing SIP messages ad hoc, based on their content alone. I think the only > real use-case for stateless relay these days is a fire-and-forget load > balancer. > > Opinions on this do vary, but regardless, you should not have any > compunctions about using TM. If you look around on the web for example > configs to do anything, virtually all of them use TM -- for a reason. > > > -- Alex > > -- > Alex Balashov - Principal > Evariste Systems LLC > 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave > Suite 106 > Decatur, GA 30030 > United States > > Tel: +1-678-954-0670 > Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list > sr-users@lists.sip-router.org > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users >
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