Hi

Have you checked that startup times on a lightly used system are not
inflating your response times ?

T

On Mar 13, 3:05 pm, Patrick Twohig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I asked once before, but I'm getting some painfully slow requests in my
> app.  Even on queries that I am certain only fetch a few entities, (5-10 max
> under absolutely worst case circumstances).  I also take advantage of memory
> caching wherever possible, and I have confirmed (via logging) that I'm
> pulling from the cache.  Some requests are taking upwards of 2-3 seconds.
> And given that my app right now is mostly a web service and not running in a
> browser, there's quite a few things that are perplexing me.  SO I have a few
> questions:
>
>    - I'm running JAX-RS (Jersey), a little Groovy, low level API (no JDO or
>    JPA), and Guice (yep, I'm a Google fanboy). I have identified where Groovy
>    is being slow, and came up with a workaround for that, so I'm not too
>    concerned.
>    - What's a reasonable number of entities I should fetch from the
>    datastore per request?  I currently fetch at least one per request to
>    validate a user's login credentials, so no matter what I'm fetching at 
> least
>    one per request.  Adding up the numbers in my head, I don't think that
>    - Even with aggressive caching, (all of my data objects get put in
>    memcache), it still behaves rather slowly?  What is the penalty speed-wise
>    for using a transaction?  I can't use caching with a transaction obviously
>    because I can't be guaranteed any consistency of data.  If I start a
>    transaction and and commit it or roll it back and perform no operations in
>    it, what is the penalty?  I'm certain this happens in my app, albeit very
>    infrequently.
>    - What's up with queries?  They just tend to be really really slow.
>    - I know loading requests are a problem, but I'm not hitting many of
>    those according to the logs, so I can rule those out as being a 
> contributing
>    factor (unless there's something I don't know).  I also don't use JSPs, 
> most
>    of it is static.
>    - How much of a performance difference does a bulk fetch/put cost versus
>    a bunch of individual ones?  I haven't seen much of a difference, but maybe
>    I'm doing it wrong.
>    - There are zero use cases in my application where more than two users
>    write to the same entity group, except for a counter for which I use
>    sharding offloaded to the task queue.  Is there a penalty for many users
>    reading from a single entity group at the same time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Patrick H. Twohig.
>
> Namazu Studios
> P.O. Box 34161
> San Diego, CA 92163-4161

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