More File-IO, more GOMAXPROCS.

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:44 AM, rlh via golang-nuts <
golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Without building and measuring it is impossible to know which of these
> approaches, or even a third one where you simply run a single instance, is
> best for your application.
>
> Each approach has upsides and downsides. The GC believes GOMAXPROCS and
> will uses as much CPU as it believes is available. This can take CPU away
> from the other 3 instances. If more CPU is available but the GC doesn't
> know about it then those cycles will go unused.
>
> Build, measure, and figure out why the application is seeing different
> performance characteristics. Please report back, 56 HW threads and
> 256Gbytes RAM is of considerable interest to many of us.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 9:59:59 AM UTC-4, Pradeep Singh wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> So, we wrote a Go service which does some heavy network IO over ZMQ
>> (using cgo calls).
>>
>> Now, we have to put this service on a VM in private cloud which has 56
>> cores and 256GB of physical memory.
>>
>> I am guessing it is mostly a dual core NUMA Intel Xeon machine with Xen
>> installed on it.
>>
>> We want to horizontally scale the application by launching 4 instances of
>> this service in this VM.
>>
>> We have tested the code for 30K+ QPS on a 16 core EC2 AMI.
>>
>> There are two ways we can do it.
>>
>> 1. Run 4 instances of the application as it is without changing any
>> defaults except configuration files and output data folders.
>>
>> 2. Run 4 instances of the application after modifying GOMAXPROCS.
>>     - GOMAXPROCS=16 ./run-my-unoptimized-app
>>
>> Which of these 2 scenarios would benefits us more in terms of performance.
>>
>> Does it makes sense to run all with default GOMAXPROCS value, which would
>> be 56 for all the 4 instances?
>>
>> Or it would be wise to follow option 2 with possibly pinning each to a
>> range of 16 cores using taskset.
>>
>> Would pinning help in second scenario?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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