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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Goulish" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 2:43:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Dispatch Router: Changing buffer size in buffer.c blows up AMQP.
> 
> *Can you explain how you are measuring AMQP throughput?  What message sizes
> are you using?  Credit windows?  How many senders and receivers?  Max frame*
> * size?*
> 
> Oops! Good point. Describe the Test!
> 
> 100 senders, 100 receivers, 100 unique addresses -- each sender sends to
> one receiver.
> Each sender is throttled to 100 messages per second (Apparently I Really
> Like the number 100).
> And message size is .... wait for it ...   100.    (payload size .. so
> really 139 or something like that.)
> 
> Credit window is 1000.
> 
> I can't find anything in my router config nor in my C client code about max
> frame size.   What do I get by default? Or, how can I check that?
> 
> The way I measured throughput was that -- first -- I noticed that when I
> made the test go longer, i.e. send 20 million total messages instead of the
> original 1 million -- it was taking much longer than I expected. So I had
> each receiver log a message every time its total received messages was
> divisible by 1000.
> 
> What I saw was that the first thousand came after 11 seconds (just about as
> expected because of sender-throttle to 100/sec) but that later thousands
> became slower. By the time I stopped the test -- after more than 50,000
> messages per receiver -- each thousand was taking ... well ... look at this
> very interesting graph that I made of one receiver's behavior.
> 
> This graph is made by just noting the time when you receive each thousandth
> message (time since test started) and graphing that -- so we expect to see
> an upward-sloping straight line whose slope is determined by how long it
> takes to receive each 1000 messages (should be close to 10 seconds).
> 
> [image: messages_vs_time.jpg]
> 
> I'm glad I graphed this! This inflection point was a total shock to me.
> NOTE TO SELF: always graph everything from now on forever.
> 
> I guess Something Interesting happened at about 28 seconds!
> 
> Maybe what I need ... is a reading from "qdstat -m" just before and after
> that inflection point !?!??
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:37 PM Ted Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 2:08 PM Michael Goulish <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > OK, so in the file Dispatch Router file src/buffer.c I changed this:
> > >       size_t BUFFER_SIZE     = 512;
> > > to this:
> > >       size_t BUFFER_SIZE     = 4096;
> > >
> > > Gordon tells me that's like 8 times bigger.
> > >
> > >
> > > It makes a terrific difference in throughput in the TCP adapter, and if
> > you
> > > limit the sender to the throughput that the receiver can accept, it can
> > go
> > > Real Fast with no memory bloat.  ( Like 15 Gbit/sec )
> > >
> > > But.
> > > AMQP throughput is Not Happy with this change.
> > >
> > > Some of the managed fields grow rapidly (although not enough to account
> > for
> > > total memory growth) -- and throughput gradually drops to a crawl.
> > >
> > > Here are the fields that increase dramatically (like 10x or more) -- and
> > > the ones that don't much change.
> > >
> > >   qd_bitmask_t
> > >   *qd_buffer_t   *
> > >   qd_composed_field_t
> > >   qd_composite_t
> > >   qd_connection_t
> > >   qd_hash_handle_t
> > >   qd_hash_item_t
> > >   qd_iterator_t
> > >   *qd_link_ref_t*
> > >   qd_link_t
> > >   qd_listener_t
> > >   qd_log_entry_t
> > >   qd_management_context_t
> > >   *qd_message_content_t*
> > >   *qd_message_t*
> > >   qd_node_t
> > >   qd_parse_node_t
> > >   qd_parse_tree_t
> > >   qd_parsed_field_t
> > >   qd_session_t
> > >   qd_timer_t
> > >   *qdr_action_t*
> > >   qdr_address_config_t
> > >   qdr_address_t
> > >   qdr_connection_info_t
> > >   qdr_connection_t
> > >   qdr_connection_work_t
> > >   qdr_core_timer_t
> > >   qdr_delivery_cleanup_t
> > >   *qdr_delivery_ref_t*
> > >   *qdr_delivery_t*
> > >   qdr_field_t
> > >   qdr_general_work_t
> > >   qdr_link_ref_t
> > >   qdr_link_t
> > >   qdr_link_work_t
> > >   qdr_query_t
> > >   qdr_terminus_t
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a great idea about any experiment I could do,
> > > instrumentation I could add, whatever -- that might help to further
> > > diagnose what is going on?
> > >
> >
> > Can you explain how you are measuring AMQP throughput?  What message sizes
> > are you using?  Credit windows?  How many senders and receivers?  Max frame
> > size?
> >
> 


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