Just to close this thread with numbers, this change is a part of 3.4
release.

Tested this change while doing Yahoo Benchmark,
Throughput increased from ~650K tuples/sec to over 1,000K tuples/sec, over
50% improvement, without any config change.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:00 PM Amol Kekre <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a good way, and it fits well with platform self-adjusting. We may
> need to still look at a way to allow users to keep SPIN_MILLIS fixed in
> case they depend on it for downstream intake.
>
> Thks
> Amol
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Sandesh Hegde <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > That is cool, we need to something similar for input operators.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:32 PM Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Please see:
> > >
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXCORE-380
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/pull/271
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Sandesh Hegde <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Team,
> > > >
> > > > The attributes SPIN_MILLIS is the amount of time the input operator
> > > sleeps
> > > > while there are no inputs to process and it's default value is 10ms.
> > > >
> > > > Recently while I was doing performance experiments, reducing the
> > > > SPIN_MILLIS to 1ms increased the number of tuples processed by the
> > input
> > > > operator. Instead of manually adjusting the SPIN_MILLIS for best
> > > > performance, how about changing it based on the heuristic?
> > > >
> > > > Here is the idea
> > > > After sleeping for SPIN_MILLIS, if tuples are found reduce the
> > > SPIN_MILLIS
> > > > otherwise increase the SPIN_MILLIS.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know your thoughts.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Sandesh
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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