Many connections results in poor performance
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Key: CORE-6296
URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6296
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 3.0.5
Environment: Windows/Linux
Reporter: Thomas Kragh
Priority: Critical
Hey
Where I work, we run a fairly large education platform, at peek hours the
database servers execute approximately 1200 to 1400 query's/second. Over the
last 4-5 weeks I have been working with Alexey from IBSurgeon to resolve a
performance issue that we have been having.
The problem occurs when the system is under high load, and over a period of
5-10 seconds the number of attachments rises from eg. 125 to 800 attachments.
800 is the max limit allowed by the connection pools, eg. 4 web servers with a
200 max pool size. Under high load with 125 attachments the web application is
spending 13 milliseconds on average waiting for the database to execute
query's, when we reach 800 attachments this number i 10-20 times greater.
I believe that the quick rise in attachments can be correlated with garbage
collection in .Net, where the application is suspended for eg. 100ms, but the
webserver still receives requests, when GC is done, the queued requests are
executed in parallel, causing perhaps 100 new attachments to the database. This
again causes the database server to respond slower that the average 13ms, when
this happens the 3 other webservers will need to create more attachments to the
database, causing a chain reaction.
After hitting 800 attachments the average query time is 10-20 times slower,
this can last for hours if the web application is not restarted, after witch
everything returns to normal.
To recreate what I think is the problem, I have created a sample
application(see download link in bottom), that shows that overall query speed
slows down proportional to the number of attachments.
Reproduce steps:
1) Ajust the connectionstring found in App.config
2) Start one instance of the console application with the command
"FbPerformance.exe --testcase ping --sleep 500", --testcase describes the
"mode", and --sleep is the time between ping. Leave the application running.
Ping query is a simple "select current_timestamp from mon$database".
3) Start another instance of the application with the command
"FbPerformance.exe --testcase ambient --count 800" testcase is "ambient" and
creates 800 connections/transactions to the database. No statements will be
executed on these connections!
4) While the second application creates attachments please observe the "execute
statement" time that the ping application prints. This will go from 2-4ms to
20-40ms.
Step 1-4 is the steps to reprocuce. 5-6 is bonus information
5) Stop the ping application and change --sleep to 20, and observe the CPU
usage of the Firebird process, witch i find quite high compared to the small
amount of work.
6) Stop the ambient instance from step 3, and observe that start
transaction/execute statement in the ping application can take quite some time
- I have observed cases of 600-1400ms, after witch executing statement is back
to about 2-4ms.
This behavior has been observed on Firebird 3.0.5 running Centos7, in
SuperServer mode, where the test application was runnning on Windows Server
2012R2.
And on Firebird 3.0.5 running Windows 10 in Classic, SuperClassic and
SuperServer mode, where the test application was run on the same machine.
Also note that if I Attache a trace session(FBTraceManager3) it will report
that the ping statement takes less that 1ms to execute, even though the ping
application reports 40ms.
sample application
https://mublobstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/mudrift/fbperformance/sampleapplication.zip?st=2020-05-01T21%3A04%3A08Z&se=2025-05-02T21%3A04%3A00Z&sp=rl&sv=2018-03-28&sr=b&sig=SiwOnTZ15E4HQsY3aNtZnkFmTlseiwN8xt5tG%2BmJ3qY%3D
sample application source
https://mublobstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/mudrift/fbperformance/sampleapplication_src.zip?st=2020-05-01T21%3A04%3A51Z&se=2025-05-02T21%3A04%3A00Z&sp=rl&sv=2018-03-28&sr=b&sig=3qt59y1TcbFkt12%2FUWm1dTPHooo1ELvE77X5tXpHLB0%3D
I hope this is enough information for you guys to track down this issue, and
thank for a great database server!
Best regards Thomas
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