[ic] Upgrade to Interchange-5.7.4 performance issues

[Bill Carr]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Bill Carr wrote:

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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:34 AM, David Christensen wrote:
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>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Jon Jensen wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bill Carr wrote:
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>>>> However, 5.7.4 runs much slower. Pages that get served on in under 5 seconds are taking 10, 20, 30 seconds or longer. The load average on each host running 5.7.4 goes from under 2 to near 10. I'm running the rpc mode from interchange.cfg.dist. Configuration is the same for 5.4.0 and 5.7.4 (besides small changes with actionmap api). I know 5.7.4 is not a production release. I'm just trying to bring my setup up to date. Been running a hacked up 5.4.0 for a while.
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>>>> Any ideas on why this would be or how I should debug it?
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>>> I haven't seen any slowdowns like that. My best guess would be that it's related to the new character set encoding stuff. What UTF8-related directives or variables do you have?
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>> There have been reports of slower regexes in some cases when using UTF8 strings; in particular unanchored regexes like /.*foo/ will sometime take a much longer time to process.  (The IC parser is made almost exclusively of regexes, many of which fall into this category.)  I believe this is a perl bug, but I'm not sure if this has been fixed in later perl versions or not.  What version of Perl/Encode are you using?
> perl v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux
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> Encode 2.39
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>> As a workaround, you can disable the MV_UTF8 as mentioned upthread, or try a newer Perl version to see if it has been solved there.
> I had this disabled initially and it still went slow.
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> I'll try perl 5.10.1 now.
I upgraded perl to 5.10.1 and running IC 5.7.4 seemed a little better but still problematic. Several pages would be served up very quickly but then there would be a page that took 10, 20, 30 seconds or more. Then it would go quickly again.

My load balancer (LVS/ldirecrtor) calls a test page every 10 seconds and it was getting timeouts on the test page and removing the real server from the virtual server pool bringing down our application. This does not happen with 5.4.0. The test page is very basic and I call it with mv_tmp_session=1. When I called the test page from the LVS box using wget it would take 30 seconds or so to return. Subsequent calls of the test page came back almost instantly. Then  I would get a slow one again.

Any more ideas? Thanks for help so far. I really want to move forward with the latest and greatest Interchange.

 
Bill Carr 
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