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Re: High CPU usage when using Grizzly NIO engine

From: charlie hunt <charlie.hunt_at_sun.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:06:17 -0500

Hi Fay,

At the moment, there is not a way to turn off expiring of a key.

But, it is functionality we should have and I know of another project
which will want this functionality disabled as well.

I will file an enhancement issue to add this functionality.

charlie ...

Fay Zheng wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off expire of key, since it is not applicable
> to persistent connections:
>
> iterator = readyKeys.iterator();
>
> while (iterator.hasNext() && selectorHandler.isOpen()) {
>
> key = iterator.next();
>
> selectionKeyHandler.expire(key);
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Fay
>
>
>
>
> On 8/10/07, *Fay Zheng* <fzheng1998_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:fzheng1998_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Here's the command to run the application:
>
> java -server -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGC
> Details -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -
> Dcom.pg.env=/props/env/dev/pg/trx.properties
> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9991
> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
> -Duser.region=US -Xmx700m com.pg.serv.room.Main
>
> The GC is almost 10% for NIO, 5% for none NIO server.
>
> thansk,
> Fay
>
> On 8/8/07, *charlie hunt* < charlie.hunt_at_sun.com
> <mailto:charlie.hunt_at_sun.com>> wrote:
>
> In addition to "RG's" suggestion, I would:
>
> 1.) Set use_direct_buffer = false (Grizzly will use
> HeapByteBuffer instead)
> 2.) You might also reduce the number of instances of the
> server down to
> 2 or even 1. NIO should give you much better scalability and
> should
> have no problems scaling to 12,000 connections.
> 3.) If you can, I would also go to the latest JDK 6_02 version.
>
> We might also need to do some further fine tuning of the JVM too.
>
> Could you share with us the full java command line args you
> are using?
> It might also be useful to see the output from
> -XX:+PrintGCDetails when
> you are running with NIO.
>
> hths,
>
> charlie ...
>
> Fay Zheng wrote:
> > We add Grizzly Nio engine to one of existing server, which
> used to be
> > one thread per connection classic model. During load test we
> noticed
> > that NIO server consumes twice CPU power than the classic
> model when
> > serving the same amount of connections.
> >
> > Here's our configurations:
> >
> > Here are some statistics:
> >
> > Hardware: Dells 2950 with 16 GB RAM, total 8 processors, Intel(R)
> > Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz , Linux kernel 2.6
> >
> > Software: JDK v1.5.6
> >
> > There are 4 instance of the server application configured on
> one box
> >
> > Grizzly Configs:
> >
> > 100 max worker threads (8K buffer size)
> >
> > 150 max output buffer pool size (4K buffer size)
> >
> > use_direct_buffer = true
> >
> > selector timeout = 500
> >
> > Keep alive is true (persistent connections)
> >
> >
> > Tested with : 7200 client connections
> >
> > Total CPU usage for all 4 instances are 44.59% (with NIO engine)
> >
> > CPU usage is 24.76% (without Nio engine)
> >
> > So far as memory, NIO server uses slightly less memory in
> this case.
> >
> >
> > The memory consumption could be linear because we keep lots
> of state
> > information for each connection (user). Other than that, what
> other
> > parameters should I pay attention to in order to scale the
> server to
> > serve 10,000 or more connections without burning up CPU?
> >
> > The old server can serve 12000 connections with 4 instance at
> <= 50%
> > CPU usage.
> >
> > Would it be better to run 2 instances of NIO server instead
> of 4?
> >
> > Your opinion and suggestion is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> > Fay
>
> --
>
> Charlie Hunt
> Java Performance Engineer
> 630.285.7708 x47708 (Internal)
>
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Charlie Hunt
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