Calling riak_kv_mrc_pipe directly from the console is just as slow as
using the pb interface.
Re: the pb interface itself, I noticed looking at the fprof analysis
that it seemed to be encoding one PB message per search result and
spending quite a bit of time doing it, e.g., this stanza:
{[{{riakc_pb,encode,1}, 15188, 7779.607, 1063.390}],
{ {riakclient_pb,iolist,2}, 15188, 7779.607, 1063.390}, %
[{{riakclient_pb,pack,5}, 45564, 6304.788, 482.190},
{{riakclient_pb,with_default,2}, 45564, 406.986, 406.986},
{garbage_collect, 2, 2.792, 2.792},
{suspend, 149, 1.651, 0.000}]}.
and similar numbers on the client side. So if there's an opportunity
for batching the search results, that seems like it would be a big
improvement as well.
(It looks like that is currently up to whatever process is sending the
results in the first place. But maybe it would be a good idea for the
pb socket to accumulate M/R results until it reaches some threshold of
bytes to send...calling term_to_binary to estimate is pretty fast.)
Mike
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Bryan Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Bryan Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This *might* be the wrong intuition for Search, since there is
>> funneling happening to process the query anyway, but it's likely a
>> good place to start.
>
> Whoops. I *really* should have included a suggestion for how to
> figure out whether this is the case, or if it is PB related. The most
> straightforward test will be to run the same query one more time, but
> this time use the `riak_kv_mrc_pipe` module. Attach to the Riak
> console, just as you did for the internal-cluster client test, but
> instead of
>
> {ok, Client} = riak:local_client(),
> Client:mapred(Inputs, Phases).
>
> use instead
>
> riak_kv_mrc_pipe:mapred(Inputs, Phases).
>
> If that is also much slower than the native client, then the problem
> is not with the PB interface. If it's nearly on-par, then the PB
> interface needs inspection.
>
> -Bryan
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