Feed problem

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Oct 19 19:44:23 UTC 2000


Brennon Church <ctsbac at cts.com> writes:

> Okay, here is yesterday's INND timer report:

> article cancel 	00:41:52.051  2.9%   133677  5.677  18.792 257.067 
> article control 	00:41:35.093  2.9%   132858  5.723  18.780 257.133 
> article link 		00:00:00.000  0.0%        0  0.000   0.000   0.000 
> article write 	06:13:25.766 25.9%   941894  9.085  23.788  39.102 
> history grep 		00:09:15.291  0.6%    54927  0.345  10.110 187.208 
> history lookup 	01:59:58.795  8.3%  6022207  0.274   1.195   6.768 
> history sync 		00:01:34.792  0.1%   108916  0.000   0.870  41.283 
> history write 	05:27:47.534 22.8%  1087561 10.378  18.084  55.422 
> idle 			01:08:03.738  4.7% 24779260  0.081   0.165   1.097 
> overview write 	00:00:00.000  0.0%        0  0.000   0.000   0.000 
> perl filter 		05:20:25.811 22.3%  1006476  6.623  19.102  31.227 
> site send 		00:01:14.328  0.1%   941894  0.021   0.079   0.606 

> TOTAL: 23:59:29.006 	21:45:13.199 90.7%        -      -       -       - 

> So it would appear that the three points of concern are article write,
> history write, and perl filter.  I've disabled the perl filter for the
> moment.  I'm guessing that the article write is also anomalously high.

I wish I knew why people were seeing these anomalously high history write
times, as I'm not seeing this on either of my machines.  My test server
(which is a dual-processor SPARC 20 and therefore is currently running
pretty close to flat out) sees:

INND timer:
Code region                   Time    Pct    Invoked  Min(ms)  Avg(ms)  Max(ms)
article cancel        00:08:55.116   0.6%      39101    1.928   13.685   28.799
article cleanup       05:31:49.711  23.0%    1069973    9.886   18.608   31.542
article control       00:08:37.715   0.6%      38048    1.895   13.607   28.826
article link          00:00:00.000   0.0%          0    0.000    0.000    0.000
article write         00:42:36.823   3.0%     305107    1.823    8.380   25.887
hisgrep               00:02:05.629   0.1%      21963    0.000    5.720   13.364
history lookup        02:02:15.751   8.5%    7551193    0.031    0.971    2.947
history sync          00:00:37.591   0.0%     108341    0.277    0.347    0.621
history write         01:49:44.088   7.6%    1081708    0.827    6.087   16.183
idle                  03:04:15.381  12.8%    6039064    1.000    1.831    7.012
overview write        00:00:00.000   0.0%          0    0.000    0.000    0.000
perl filter           02:31:46.288  10.5%    1054228    5.866    8.638   12.838
python filter         00:00:00.000   0.0%          0    0.000    0.000    0.000
site send             00:14:21.046   1.0%     585582    0.856    1.470    2.336

TOTAL: 24:00:07.414   16:17:05.139  67.8%          -        -        -        -

6ms per history write, and my *max* history write time is smaller than
your average.  (Still losing lots and lots of time and I'm not sure where
it's going.)  newsfeed.stanford.edu, which is a beefier system with much
better disks (headwall is on a SPARC StorageArray) has:

INND timer:
Code region              Time    Pct    Invoked   Min(ms)    Avg(ms)    Max(ms)
article cancel   00:02:15.348   0.2%      38494     0.489      3.516     13.789
article control  00:02:08.628   0.1%      37441     0.462      3.435     13.529
article link     00:00:00.000   0.0%          0     0.000      0.000      0.000
article write    00:19:32.968   1.4%     304117     1.089      3.857     11.286
history grep     00:00:14.559   0.0%      22309     0.015      0.653      2.215
history lookup   00:16:39.519   1.2%   11379463     0.004      0.088      0.350
history sync     00:00:12.106   0.0%     108420     0.078      0.112      0.275
history write    00:16:44.398   1.2%    1082577     0.158      0.928      3.557
idle             17:00:49.699  70.9%   29734315     1.384      2.060      3.356
overview write   00:00:00.000   0.0%          0     0.000      0.000      0.000
perl filter      00:53:43.390   3.7%    1032537     2.128      3.122      4.402
site send        00:19:26.628   1.4%     579839     1.402      2.012      2.570

TOTAL: 24:00:01  19:11:47.243  80.0%          -         -          -          -

Is Solaris just handling something significantly better or something?
newsfeed is running INN 2.3.0; headwall is running a current snapshot from
a couple of weeks ago.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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