Andrea Aime wrote:
> Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>> I have recently been building up graphs from WFS data; and have been 
>> experiencing some interesting performance characteristics - and I am 
>> wondering if they are expected ...
>>
>> In order to build up a graph ...
>> 1. I request the features in a region using a normal WFS 1.0.0 
>> GetFeatures request.
>> 2. For the first 30 seconds the server performance logs show that 
>> GeoServer is using up a full core; and postgis is using a small 
>> percentage of another core. During this time no data is being 
>> transmitted to the client.
>> 3. At this point the client starts GeoServer starts sending data to 
>> the client; GeoServer remains using a full core; and postgis is using 
>> a small percentage of another core.
>>
>> I went into the web.xml and confirmed that SPEED was set as the 
>> policy ... is this the case of needing to issue the postgis request 
>> twice? once to calculate the bounds and again to grab and transmit 
>> the data? If so can we avoid this step by assuming the bounds 
>> provided during the request "contain" the resulting data?
>
> Uh, this is complex.
> First off, in 1.6.x we actually do 3 queries. The first one is a count,
> to make sure we don't return too many features. It's only needed
> in case you have multiple Query elements (to respect the global max
> features request) and I've optimized it out in 1.7.0-RC3, no luck
> for 1.6.x, that series is dead.
:-)
> The second one is about the bounds, and no, we cannot return the
> request bounds, the bounds we return are supposed to be the
> bounds of the feature collection. But we have a flag in WFS/content
> that allows the result to avoid the bounds element altogether,
> and it seems we're not honouring it anymore (can you open a jira issue 
> about it?).
I am just leaving for the day; so I missed my chance to open a Jira.
> On 1.7.x I double checked that SPEED is used for the benchmarks, but
> on 1.6.x it's not the first report I heard of that makes me thing
> for some reason file strategy is used instead. Yet I've just tried
> with my 1.6.x checkout and with SPEED configured my debugger stops 
> only in SpeedStrategy...
>
> It's also quite strange that you see GeoServer peg the CPU,  count and 
> bounds should use lots of Postgis time instead.
It is strange; but the other developer here confirms it - geoserver was 
using a full core.
> Can you enable GEOTOOLS_DEVELOPER_LOGGING and see what's taking  so 
> long as it goes?
>
> Stupid question but... you do have a spatial index on that data,  right?
not a stupid question; that is what was wrong yesterday :-)

Jody

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