Also,

Any hints on how the Storm metrics calculate the "complete latency"?

Thanks,
Preethini

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:48 AM, preethini v <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bobby,
>
> I am running a simple word count topology. I have 2 worker nodes and a
> nimbus/zookeeper node. The latency between the nodes is < 1ms.
>
> I have synched the clocks of all 3 nodes using NTP.  Is this not
> sufficient ?
>
> Thanks,
> Preethini
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Bobby Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is really hard to tell without more information.  Off the top of my
>> head it might have something to do with the system time on different
>> hosts.  Getting the current time in milliseconds is full of issues,
>> especially with leap seconds etc, but it is even more problematic between
>> machines because the time is not guaranteed to be synced very closely.
>> That would be my first guess.  If they are all on the same machine (you are
>> not switching hosts), then my next guess would be a bug in the code some
>> where, or a misinterpretation of the results.
>>
>> Do you have a reproducible use case that you can share?
>>
>> - Bobby
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, July 24, 2017, 10:13:59 AM CDT, preethini v <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I measure the latency of a storm topology in the below two ways. And I
>> see a huge difference in the values.
>>
>> *Approach 1*: attach a start time with every tuple. Note the end time
>> for that tuple in ack(). Calculate the time delta of start and end times.
>>
>> Latency value is ~ 104 ms.
>>
>> *Approach 2*: Using Storm UI parameter "complete Latency" to measure
>> latency.
>>
>> Latency value is ~ 2-3 ms.
>>
>> Could someone please explain why is there a huge difference in Latency
>> calculations?
>> If not on timestamp basis, how does storm internal metrics system
>> calculate the complete latency?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Preethini
>>
>
>

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