We are using percentiles computed via Kamon 0.6.8.  In a very low request
rate environment like this, it takes roughly 1 super slow request/second to
throw off the percentiles (which is what I think is happening).



On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Viktor Klang <viktor.kl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What definition of latency are you using? (i.e. how is it derived)
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Gary Malouf <malouf.g...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Konrad,
>>
>> Our real issue is that we can not reproduce the results.  The web server
>> we are having latency issues with is under peak load of 10-15
>> requests/second - obviously not much to deal with.
>>
>> When we use load tests (https://github.com/apigee/apib), it's easy for
>> us to throw a few thousand requests/second at it and get latencies in the ~
>> 3 ms range.  We use kamon to track internal metrics - what we see is that
>> our 95th and 99th percentiles only look bad under the production traffic
>> but not under load tests.
>>
>> I've since used kamon to print out the actual requests trying to find any
>> pattern in them to hint at what's wrong in my own code, but they seem to be
>> completely random.  What we do know is that downgrading to spray gets us
>> 99.9th percentile latencies under 2ms, so something related to the upgrade
>> is allowing this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 12:07:51 PM UTC-4, Konrad Malawski wrote:
>>>
>>> Step 1 – don’t panic ;-)
>>> Step 2 – as I already asked for, please share actual details of the
>>> benchmarks. It is not good to discuss benchmarks without any insight into
>>> what / how exactly you’re measuring.
>>>
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>>> On October 12, 2017 at 15:31:19, Gary Malouf (malou...@gmail.com) wrote:
>>>
>>> We have a web service that we just finished migrating from spray 1.3 to
>>> Akka-Http 10.0.9.  While in most cases it is performing well, we are seeing
>>> terrible 99th percentile latencies 300-450ms range) starting from a very
>>> low request rate (10/second) on an ec2 m3.large.
>>>
>>> Our service does not do anything complicated - it does a few Map lookups
>>> and returns a response to a request.  In spray, even 99th percentile
>>> latencies were on the order of 1-3 ms, so we are definitely concerned.
>>> Connections as with many pixel-type servers are short-lived -> we actually
>>> pass the Connection: Close header intentionally in our responses.
>>>
>>> Is there any obvious tuning that should be done on the server
>>> configuration that others have found?
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