[Freeswitch-dev] On high CPU usage and NONBLOCK-ed sockets
Anthony Minessale
anthony.minessale at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 14:04:58 PDT 2010
Can you produce some example code that we can test on other architectures?
What exactly were you doing in mod_skinny? if you copied
mod_event_socket it may be true your blocking approach is better but
mod_event_socket has some high performance reasons to not block.
We use the centos kernel and trying to make it work better on debian
with a newer kernel could disrupt our stable user base.
consider making a mod_debug or mod_testperf we can mess with on many boxes.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Anthony Minessale
> <anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you mean by high cpu exactly?
> when going blocking-mode, the user CPU gets lower and the kernel CPU is similar.
>
>> what are you using to measure it?
> top, vmstat
>
> without mod_skinny
> mathieu at netthieu:~/apps/freeswitch/freeswitch.git$ vmstat 5 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 7 0 48 175552 161664 787636 0 0 8 10 184 361 6 8 86 1
> 1 0 48 171948 161672 791372 0 0 0 5 4141 9191 14 12 74 0
> 0 0 48 171700 161684 791496 0 0 0 11 4125 9081 13 9 78 0
> 0 0 48 175048 161688 787860 0 0 0 3 4344 9177 7 10 84 0
> 6 0 48 175048 161692 787860 0 0 0 1 4225 9035 9 11 80 0
>
> with mod_skinny NONBLOCKED
> mathieu at netthieu:~/apps/freeswitch/freeswitch.git$ vmstat 5 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 1 0 48 172668 162104 789052 0 0 8 10 190 374 6 8 86 1
> 1 0 48 173528 162108 788652 0 0 0 2 4792 10346 15 13 72 0
> 1 0 48 173528 162124 788664 0 0 0 17 4678 10326 9 12 78 0
> 0 0 48 173528 162124 788628 0 0 0 1 4788 10343 10 14 77 0
> 9 0 48 166956 162136 792764 0 0 0 10 4592 10535 16 13 71 0
>
> with mod_skinny BLOCKED
> mathieu at netthieu:~/apps/freeswitch/freeswitch.git$ vmstat 5 5
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 0 0 48 175288 161648 787832 0 0 8 10 182 358 6 8 86 1
> 1 0 48 175280 161648 787824 0 0 0 0 4236 9054 7 9 83 0
> 7 0 48 175404 161648 787804 0 0 0 3 4173 8927 7 10 83 0
> 0 0 48 175280 161652 787576 0 0 0 5 4288 9182 9 10 81 0
> 6 0 48 175404 161656 787580 0 0 0 4 4209 9001 8 10 82 0
>
> So it seems that both %user and %system are lower. I have not done
> complete tests but mod_skinny is more responsive in BLOCKING-mode
>
>> what OS are you on?
> Linux netthieu 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 13:38:27 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> this is Debian testing using FS built from recent git using debian packaging.
>
>
>> in my findings not more efficient, not at all reliable.
> Googling some, I found (from
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-async/)
>
> "Synchronous non-blocking I/O: A less efficient variant of synchronous
> blocking". This is what we are doing?
>
> The good solutions IMO are:
> - Synchronous blocking I/O: simple and efficient
> - Asynchronous blocking I/O: not so good. use of "select" is not recommended
> - Asynchronous non-blocking I/O (AIO) which is a completely different
> API (portable?) which should fit well with FS's event model but with a
> lot of work
>
> Maybe we can make it configurable at build-time (as it is in
> mod_skinny) to allow performance testing? Perhaps the results will be
> very different from one platform to another.
>
> Mathieu
>
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