I'm unfamilar with jetty. I'll ping Stax if they have jetty-based environments. What I'd like to be able to do is offer customers various sizing and hardware configuration options. Ideal would be a some sort of a matrix where users can describe what their requirements are (# of users, use of container features, etc.) and have them know whether to use jetty, tomcat or another application server. D.
________________________________ From: David Pollak [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri 1/9/2009 05:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Details from Stax Load test Dick, Unfortunately, Tomcat is very weak when it comes to support for long polling. One way or another, that's going to hurt us until Tomcat supports the Servlet 3.0 spec. I prefer using Jetty because the Jetty team has led the way in support of long polling style coding. This year, NetWeaver's going to catch up. I certainly hope Tomcat catches up soon too, but I think it's important to demonstrate how ESME will perform using the right environment (one that's been designed for applications like ESME) rather than a lowest common denominator, like Tomcat. Thanks, David On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Hirsch, Richard <[email protected] > wrote: > I'd like to try load tests later in the Stax Environment when Scala 2.7.3 > is released with the new ESME Core from apache. Since Daniel's tests are > based on the REST-API, we don't have to wait for the UI to be stable or > finished. > > Regarding the use of jetty vs tomcat in such tests: The question is which > tool is more likely to be used by potential users. I'm assuming tomcat, > primarily because I've never seen jetty in a productive system in the > enterprise. I also don't know if Stax supports jetty. Ideal would be a > comparison between the two. > > What I think is great is the ability to use Stax to do load tests. The > environment is perfect for such tasks. We should probably use a cluster the > next time we test to see how that influences test results. > > We will publish our results from these tests. I know of no other > microblogging tool (or many other tools irregardless of type) that > proactively publishes such results. By publishing such reports, we will > enhance our legitimacy in the community and the marketplace. We also > spotlight the use of cloud computing as a potential hosting environment for > potential users. > > I'm in contact with Spike Washburn (CEO from Stax) and I think we have a > good contact there for future reference. > > D. > > ________________________________ > > From: David Pollak [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thu 1/8/2009 06:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Details from Stax Load test > > > > Dick, > Tomcat is a less than optimal platform for high concurrent load. It does > not have the same continuations mechanism that Jetty has. All my high load > tests are done on Jetty. With that being said, ESME's long polling for the > HTTP APIs does not take advantage of Jetty's continuations yet. That's on > my to-do list, but to date has not been a high priority. > > Another issue is that there's a problem with Scala Actors and memory in > Scala 2.7.2. The Scala team is releasing Scala 2.7.3 this week or next to > cure the memory problems. > > Also, the continuations that Jetty currently supports are part of the > Servlet 3.0 spec and should be part of NetWeaver this year. > > Thanks, > > David > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hirsch, Richard > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Here are some details for a very first performance test on Stax for the > > ESME server. Daniel tried with 1000 concurrent connections and then the > > server started having some problems. Take a look at the enclosed stack > trace > > and you will see that towards the end there were problems with the > threads. > > I'm also enclosing a picture of the Stax performance indicators. I don't > > know the exact dimensions of the test but I'm sure Daniel will provide > them > > soon. > > > > Load tests are critical if we are to succeed in enterprises. They are > also > > critical when customers need sizing information. I assume that they > should > > also be useful for the lift framework. > > > > D. > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Spike Washburn [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wed 1/7/2009 23:13 > > To: Hirsch, Richard > > Subject: Re: Stax account > > > > > > The activity died back down for a bit, but then the app started sucking > up > > memory and CPU like it was stuck in a loop. When we checked the logs, we > > saw it was throwing out of memory exceptions. Since the app was clearly > in > > a death spiral, we took a JVM stack dump and then restarted the app. I > have > > attached the last part of the appserver log if you want to review it. > > > > Also I noticed from the log that your app is getting warnings about > > including the servlet-api-2.5.jar in WEB-INF/lib. This is not necessary > > since the Servlet API classes are part of the classpath provided by the > > appserver. > > > > Before your app died we were seeing upwards of 1000 concurrent > connections > > to your app. Please let me know if you were expecting this load or if it > > was some kind of external attack against your app. > > > > Thanks, > > Spike > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Spike Washburn <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Dick, > > > > We just noticed a major spike in activity on your application (id: > > DickHirsch/esmecloudserver). I just wanted to check with you to see if > you > > were doing some load testing or if this was some kind of external attack > on > > your webapp. > > > > Thanks, > > Spike > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > <http://liftweb.net/> < > http://liftweb.net/> > Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us <http://much4.us/> > <http://much4.us/> > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net <http://liftweb.net/> Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us <http://much4.us/> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp
