Re: [Nethttpd-plex] Poor performance on FreeBSD 8.2

Stéphane Legrand <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:12:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.lib.net.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 à 18:09 -0300, Matías Giovannini a écrit :
> Very interesting numbers, Stéphane! May I ask what is the patch you
> applied to add NODELAY to the server?

The patch sent by Gerd Stolpmann.


> 
> Regards,
> Matías.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Stéphane Legrand <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>         Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 à 11:20 +0200, Gerd Stolpmann a
>         écrit :
>         
>         > Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2011, 14:40 -0300 schrieb Matías
>         Giovannini:
>         > > I've migrated to Debian Lenny, and even though I see
>         higher throughput
>         > > compared to FreeBSD 8, there is a huge discrepancy between
>         static file
>         > > serving and dynamic services in Nethttpd:
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > $ ./curl_test -v -m g -n 100
>         > > 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/share/misc/magic.mime'
>         > > Total time: 0.100 s (996.35 req/s)
>         > > cURL  time: 0.100 s (1000.11 req/s)
>         > > successes: 100/100
>         > > $ ./curl_test -v -m g -n 100 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder'
>         > > Total time: 3.961 s (25.25 req/s)
>         > > cURL  time: 3.960 s (25.25 req/s)
>         > > successes: 100/100
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > I've measured my own dynamic handler and its activation is
>         > > consistently under 1 ms, so I'm confident that it is not
>         the handler
>         > > code that is holding my throughput back.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Maybe something to do with Netcgi? I'd love to hear your
>         opinions.
>         >
>         > So, under Linux I see something that is even more weird. For
>         static
>         > files I get a difference between native and bytecode, but
>         other than
>         > expected: there is a three times better performance for
>         bytecode.
>         >
>         > Experimentally, I set the TCP_NODELAY option in the server:
>         >
>         >   let nethttpd_factory1 =
>         >     Nethttpd_plex.nethttpd_factory
>         >       ~handlers:[ "adder", adder ]
>         >       () in
>         >   let nethttpd_factory2 =
>         >     ( object
>         >       method name = "nethttpd"
>         >       method create_processor cc cf addr =
>         >         let p = nethttpd_factory1 # create_processor cc cf
>         addr in
>         >         ( object
>         >             inherit Netplex_kit.processor_base
>         >                          (p :>
>         Netplex_types.processor_hooks)
>         >             method process ~when_done cont fd proto =
>         >               Unix.setsockopt fd Unix.TCP_NODELAY true;
>         >               p#process ~when_done cont fd proto
>         >             method supported_ptypes =
>         >               p#supported_ptypes
>         >           end
>         >         )
>         >       end
>         >     )
>         >
>         > This changed the game: adder is now even a bit faster, and I
>         get around
>         > 1350 req/s on my Laptop.
>         >
>         > Same under FreeBSD?
>         >
>         > Gerd
>         
>         
>         Hello,
>         
>         I did some tests (see below) on FreeBSD. In summary :
>         
>         - Setting the TCP_NODELAY option for the server gives a huge
>         performance
>         boost !
>         
>         - The bytecode version is always slower than the native one.
>         
>         - At least for the curl library, setting or not the
>         TCP_NODELAY option
>         for the client has no effect.
>         
>         
>         And for the details :
>         
>         
>         Server: native, tcp_nodelay
>         
>          Client: native, tcp_nodelay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 0.428 s (233.64 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.426 s (234.81 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 0.421 s (237.77 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.418 s (239.15 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>          Client: native, tcp delay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 0.490 s (204.26 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.487 s (205.32 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 0.361 s (276.72 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.359 s (278.32 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>         
>         Server: native, tcp delay
>         
>          Client: native, tcp_nodelay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 10.235 s (9.77 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.232 s (9.77 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 10.116 s (9.89 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.113 s (9.89 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>          Client: native, tcp delay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 10.243 s (9.76 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.239 s (9.77 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 10.114 s (9.89 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.111 s (9.89 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>         
>         Server: bytecode, tcp_nodelay
>         
>          Client: native, tcp_nodelay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 0.784 s (127.54 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.782 s (127.83 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 0.693 s (144.33 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.691 s (144.80 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>          Client: native, tcp delay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 0.832 s (120.13 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.829 s (120.61 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 0.649 s (154.01 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 0.647 s (154.53 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>         
>         Server: bytecode, tcp delay
>         
>          Client: native, tcp_nodelay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 10.861 s (9.21 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.857 s (9.21 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 10.329 s (9.68 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.325 s (9.68 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>          Client: native, tcp delay
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/
>         
>              Total time: 10.873 s (9.20 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.870 s (9.20 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>            URL: http://127.0.0.1:4444/adder
>         
>              Total time: 10.315 s (9.69 req/s)
>              cURL  time: 10.312 s (9.70 req/s)
>              successes: 100/100
>         
>         
>         
>         Siege with native/tcp_nodelay server :
>         
>         Lifting the server siege...      done.
>         Transactions:           14702 hits
>         Availability:          100.00 %
>         Elapsed time:           60.03 secs
>         Data transferred:         31.30 MB
>         Response time:            0.00 secs
>         
>         Transaction rate:        244.91 trans/sec
>         Throughput:            0.52 MB/sec
>         Concurrency:            0.79
>         Successful transactions:       14703
>         Failed transactions:             0
>         Longest transaction:          0.05
>         Shortest transaction:          0.00
>         
>         
>         Siege with native/tcp delay server :
>         
>         Lifting the server siege...      done.
>         Transactions:           15654 hits
>         Availability:          100.00 %
>         Elapsed time:           59.30 secs
>         Data transferred:         33.32 MB
>         Response time:            0.00 secs
>         
>         Transaction rate:        263.99 trans/sec
>         Throughput:            0.56 MB/sec
>         Concurrency:            0.75
>         Successful transactions:       15655
>         Failed transactions:             0
>         Longest transaction:          0.07
>         Shortest transaction:          0.00
>         
>         
>         Siege with bytecode/tcp_nodelay server :
>         
>         Lifting the server siege...      done.
>         Transactions:            5348 hits
>         Availability:          100.00 %
>         Elapsed time:           59.88 secs
>         Data transferred:         11.38 MB
>         Response time:            0.01 secs
>         
>         Transaction rate:         89.31 trans/sec
>         Throughput:            0.19 MB/sec
>         Concurrency:            0.99
>         Successful transactions:        5348
>         Failed transactions:             0
>         Longest transaction:          0.16
>         Shortest transaction:          0.00
>         
>         
>         Siege with bytecode/tcp delay server :
>         
>         Lifting the server siege...      done.
>         Transactions:            5372 hits
>         Availability:          100.00 %
>         Elapsed time:           59.51 secs
>         Data transferred:         11.43 MB
>         Response time:            0.01 secs
>         
>         Transaction rate:         90.27 trans/sec
>         Throughput:            0.19 MB/sec
>         Concurrency:            0.99
>         Successful transactions:        5372
>         Failed transactions:             0
>         Longest transaction:          0.13
>         Shortest transaction:          0.00
>         
>         
>         Regards,
>         Stéphane.
>         
>         
>         >
>         >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Regards,
>         > > Matías.
>         > >
>         > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Stéphane Legrand
>         <[email protected]>
>         > > wrote:
>         > >         Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 17:30 -0300, Matías
>         Giovannini a
>         > >         écrit :
>         > >         > Stéphane,
>         > >         > it's odd, as testing the cURL script against a
>         minimal
>         > >         server I get
>         > >         > good throughput:
>         > >         >
>         > >         >
>         > >         > $ ./curl_test -v -n 1000
>         'http://127.0.0.1:9999/'
>         > >         > Total time: 0.149 s (6699.49 req/s)
>         > >         > cURL  time: 0.122 s (8206.21 req/s)
>         > >         > successes: 1000/1000
>         > >         >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >         I tried this server with the curl client. I also
>         get much
>         > >         higher request
>         > >         rate (around 1000 req/sec).
>         > >
>         > >         I really don't know. Have you tried to play with
>         the curl
>         > >         options,
>         > >         particularly the TCP_NODELAY one ?
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >         Regards,
>         > >         Stéphane.
>         > >
>         > >
>         
>         
>         
> 
> 




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