GitHub user nickwallen opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/509
METRON-822 Improve Fastcapa Performance
This PR contains significant improvements to the performance and
scalability of Fastcapa.
* Previously the 'distributor' framework was used. This did not scale well
and has been replaced with a burst-oriented design.
* Receive and transmission functions have been separated to allow each to
scale independently.
* Additional parameters have been added to allow the process to be tuned
easily.
* Output provides basic transparency into the current state of processing.
* If the probe is overwhelmed with more packets than can be handled, it
will continue processing the packets that it can without crashing.
* The fact that packets are being dropped is very clear.
* A great deal of documentation has been added to the README.
This change has been tested on Cisco UCS hardware with a 10G Cisco VNIC.
The probe was able to capture 1 gbps before packets started to drop.
Additional performance tuning would push this ceiling much higher, but for my
purposes, I just needed to reach 1 gbps. Additional work will proceed in the
future to find its true performance ceiling.
To test the change yourself, simply spin-up the virtualized test
environment which will deploy and validate that Fastcapa can land packets in
Kafka correctly.
```
cd metron-deployment/vagrant/fastcapa-test-environment
vagrant up
```
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You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/nickwallen/incubator-metron METRON-822
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/509.patch
To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:
This closes #509
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commit 34614cc9006a77826ed729f2c8a40f99bd84d4b4
Author: dlyle65535 <dlyle65...@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-04-04T12:15:42Z
METRON-196 Deployment Fails Without Ansible 2.0.0.2 closes
apache/incubator-metron#499
commit fccb67aecca199d7aebd14b16debff4bf16f8acd
Author: KunalAggarwal <aggku...@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-04-04T16:14:23Z
METRON-808: Amazon EC2 deployment fails at Expanding Volume Step
(KunalAggarwal via mmiklavc) closes apache/incubator-metron#496
commit 6410229e6a6a031f470d01ced2eb316d43bae29a
Author: Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org>
Date: 2017-03-21T17:51:55Z
METRON-822 Improve Fastcapa Performance
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