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George Wu commented on HADOOP-3672:
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re: rpc being synchronous by nature, how is this different from how pread() and 
seek();read() are currently handled? aren't the reads synchronous? 

> support for persistent connections to improve random read performance.
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3672
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3672
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.17.0
>         Environment: Linux 2.6.9-55  , Dual Core Opteron 280 2.4Ghz , 4GB 
> memory
>            Reporter: George Wu
>
> preads() establish new connections per request. yourkit java profiles show 
> that this connection overhead is pretty significant on the DataNode. 
> I wrote a simple microbenchmark program which does many iterations of pread() 
> from different offsets of a large file. I hacked DFSClient/DataNode code to 
> re-use the same connection/DataNode request handler thread. The performance 
> improvement was 7% when the data is served from disk and 80% when the data is 
> served from the OS page cache.

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