Re: Epoll performance issues.

From: James Read via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:44:22 +0000

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:37 PM Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library <
curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On 23/11/2020 20:16, James Read via curl-library wrote:
> > I have attempted to make two minimal codes that
> > demonstrate my problem.
> >
> > The first can be
> > downloaded from https://github.com/JamesRead5737/fast
> > <https://github.com/JamesRead5737/fast>
> > It basically recursively downloads http://www.google.com
> > <http://www.google.com>, http://www.yahoo.com
> > <http://www.yahoo.com> and http://www.bing.com
> > <http://www.bing.com>
> > I am able to achieve download speeds of up to 7Gbps with
> > this simple program
> >
> > The second can be downloaded
> > from https://github.com/JamesRead5737/slow
> > <https://github.com/JamesRead5737/slow>
> > The program extends the first program with an asynchronous
> > DNS component and instead of recursively downloading the
> > same URLs over and over again downloads from a list of
> > URLs provided in the http001 file. Full instructions are
> > in the README. What's troubling me is that this second
> > version of the program only achieves average download
> > speed of 16Mbps.
> >
> > I have no idea why this is happening. Shouldn't the second
> > program run just as fast as the first?
> >
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> That's a lot of code you're asking us to debug.
>

Sorry, I've tried my best to cut this down to a minimal reproducer.


>
> Have you profiled it?


The fast program produces the following flat profile:

Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
  % cumulative self self total
 time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
 26.72 0.04 0.04 1 40.08 125.25 crawler_init
 23.38 0.08 0.04 11051513 0.00 0.00 event_cb
 23.38 0.11 0.04 11072333 0.00 0.00 check_multi_info
  6.68 0.12 0.01 11083187 0.00 0.00 mcode_or_die
  6.68 0.13 0.01
_curl_easy_getinfo_err_curl_off_t
  3.34 0.14 0.01 21722 0.00 0.00 timer_cb
  3.34 0.14 0.01 multi_timer_cb
  3.34 0.15 0.01 write_cb
  0.00 0.15 0.00 24830 0.00 0.00 print_progress
  0.00 0.15 0.00 22447 0.00 0.00 remsock
  0.00 0.15 0.00 10854 0.00 0.00 new_conn
  0.00 0.15 0.00 10854 0.00 0.00 transfers_dec
  0.00 0.15 0.00 10854 0.00 0.00 transfers_inc
  0.00 0.15 0.00 1561 0.00 0.00
 concurrent_connections_dec
  0.00 0.15 0.00 1561 0.00 0.00
 concurrent_connections_inc
  0.00 0.15 0.00 1561 0.00 0.00 setsock
  0.00 0.15 0.00 1224 0.00 0.00 addsock

Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
  % cumulative self self total
 time seconds seconds calls ms/call ms/call name
 38.51 0.05 0.05 1 50.06 115.13 crawler_init
 15.40 0.07 0.02 6491517 0.00 0.00 check_multi_info
 15.40 0.09 0.02 6479151 0.00 0.00 event_cb
  7.70 0.10 0.01 6500971 0.00 0.00 mcode_or_die
  7.70 0.11 0.01 13729 0.00 0.00 timer_cb
  7.70 0.12 0.01 multi_timer_cb
  3.85 0.13 0.01 11581 0.00 0.00 remsock
  3.85 0.13 0.01 6041 0.00 0.00 new_body_conn
  0.00 0.13 0.00 31665 0.00 0.00 starts_with
  0.00 0.13 0.00 29448 0.00 0.00 print_progress
  0.00 0.13 0.00 9454 0.00 0.00 get_host_from_url
  0.00 0.13 0.00 9454 0.00 0.00 transfers_dec
  0.00 0.13 0.00 9454 0.00 0.00 transfers_inc
  0.00 0.13 0.00 5270 0.00 0.00
 concurrent_connections_dec
  0.00 0.13 0.00 5270 0.00 0.00
 concurrent_connections_inc
  0.00 0.13 0.00 5270 0.00 0.00 setsock
  0.00 0.13 0.00 4633 0.00 0.00 addsock
  0.00 0.13 0.00 3413 0.00 0.00 new_head_conn
  0.00 0.13 0.00 416 0.00 0.00 parsed_sites_inc







> Have you tried narrowing down the
> problem to a smaller testcase? I find it hard to believe
> that these are minimal.
>
> Also, there is no recursion here.
>
> Cheers
>
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