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George Wu commented on HADOOP-3672: ----------------------------------- 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.