Robert, thanks a lot for your sugestions!
Increasing bucket size made a huge difference. Need to study
theoretical part... and find the optimal bucket size for 50/sec.

yep, I use creatework directly without fanout. I will try to insert
'work' models within my original data transaction and compare the
performance.

On Nov 9, 3:14 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Dmitry,
>    I am working on getting some decent documentation about when you
> might want to use fanout versus directly using creatwork.  And, about
> usage in general.  If I am dealing with one or two aggregations I
> usually use creatework directly.  You can only insert five
> transactional tasks in one database transaction, so with four you
> could directly use creatework eliminating a fanout task.
>
>   As far as rates go, I have been using a rate of 35/s and bucket size
> of 40.  However, I also get periodic queue backups.  I think the max
> rate / sec is currently 50, but I thought there was an announcement it
> was getting increased (maybe I am just remembering the increase to
> 50/sec announcement though).  You might want to bump your rate up to
> 50/sec.  I always use a dedicated queue for creatework and aggregation
> tasks.  In one of my apps I use multiple queues to get a bit higher
> throughput.
>
>   I generally prefer to use creatework tasks; they cleanly handle any
> failures that occur and keeps my primary processing running as fast as
> possible.  However, when I first started using this type of
> aggregation technique I created the 'work' models and attempted to
> insert the aggregator task (non-transactionaly!) within my primary
> transaction.  If your primary processing is within tasks, and your
> tasks are fast enough, give it a shot.  Converting CreateWorkHandler
> to something you can use directly should not be a big deal.
>
> Robert
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 18:14, Dmitry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
>
> > What queue configuration do you use for your system?
> > I came to another problem. I usually process several feeds in parallel
> > and can insert up to 20-30 new items to the database. With 4
> > aggregators it's >80 create_work tasks in one moment. So after a
> > minute I can have up to 1000 tasks in queue... so I have up to 5
> > minutes delay in processing.
>
> > It seems that for initial aggregation I should insert create work
> > models not in tasks.
> > I messed up again:)
>
> > On Nov 5, 6:46 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Dmitry,
> >>    I finally got the time to make these changes.  Let me know if that
> >> works for your use-case.
>
> >>    I really appreciate all of your suggestions and help with this.
>
> >> Robert
>
> >> 2010/11/3 Dmitry <[email protected]>:
>
> >> > oops I read expression in wrong direction. This will definitely work!
>
> >> > On Nov 3, 7:43 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Dmitry,
> >> >> š Right, I know those will cause problems. So what about my suggested 
> >> >> solution of using:
>
> >> >> šif not re.match("^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$", task_name):
> >> >> š š š task_name = šsha1_hash(task_name)
>
> >> >> That should correctly handle your use cases, since the full name will 
> >> >> be hashed.
>
> >> >> Are there issues with that solution I am not seeing?
>
> >> >> Robert
>
> >> >> On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:52, Dmitry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >> > Robert,
>
> >> >> > You will get into the trouble with these aggregations:
>
> >> >> > urls:
> >> >> > http://ÐÒÁ×ÉÔÅÌØÓÔ×Ï.ÒÆ/search/?phrase=ÎÁÌÏÇ&section=gov_events ->
> >> >> > httpsearchphrase
> >> >> > http://ÐÒÁ×ÉÔÅÌØÓÔ×Ï.ÒÆ/search/?phrase=ÐÒÅÚÉÄÅÎÔ&section=gov_events ->
> >> >> > httpsearchphrase
>
> >> >> > or usernames:
> >> >> > ÍÓÔÉÔÅÌØ2000 -> 2000
> >> >> > ÔÅÓÔ2000 -> 2000
>
> >> >> > but anyway in most cases your approach will work well:) You can leave
> >> >> > it up to the user (add some kind of flag "use_hash").
>
> >> >> > or we can try to url encode strings:
> >> >> > urllib.quote(task_name.encode('utf-8'))
> >> >> > http3AD0BFD180D0B0D0B2D0B8D182D0B5D0BBD18CD181D182D0B2D0BED180D184search3Fphrase3DD0BDD0B0D0BBD0BED0B3
> >> >> > http3AD0BFD180D0B0D0B2D0B8D182D0B5D0BBD18CD181D182D0B2D0BED180D184search3Fphrase3DD0BFD180D0B5D0B7D0B8D0B4D0B5D0BDD182
>
> >> >> > but this is not better that hash :-D
>
> >> >> > thanks
>
> >> >> > On Nov 3, 7:13 am, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >> Hey Dmitry,
> >> >> >> š I am sure the "fix" in that commit is _not_ a good idea. 
> >> >> >> šOriginally
> >> >> >> I stuck it in because I use entity keys as the task-name, sometimes
> >> >> >> they contains characters not allowed in task-names. šI actually
> >> >> >> debated for several days about pushing that update out; šfinally I
> >> >> >> decide to push and hope someone would notice and offer their 
> >> >> >> thoughts.
>
> >> >> >> š I like your idea a lot. šBut, for many aggregations I like to use
> >> >> >> entity keys, it makes it possible for me to visually see what a task
> >> >> >> is doing. šWhat do you think about something like the following
> >> >> >> approach:
>
> >> >> >> š if not re.match("^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+$", task_name):
> >> >> >> š š š task_name = sha1_hash(task_name)
>
> >> >> >> That should allow 'valid' names to remain as-is, but it will safely
> >> >> >> encode non-valid task-names. šDo you think that is an acceptable
> >> >> >> method?
>
> >> >> >> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
> >> >> >> Robert
>
> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 07:15, Dmitry <[email protected]> 
> >> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >>> Hi Robert,
>
> >> >> >>> Regarding your latest commit:
>
> >> >> >>> # TODO: find a better solution for cleaning up the name.
> >> >> >>> task_name = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9-]', '', task_name)[:500]
>
> >> >> >>> Don't think this is a good idea:) For example I have unicode
> >> >> >>> characters in aggregation value. In this case regexp will return
> >> >> >>> nothing.
> >> >> >>> I use sha1 hash now... but there's also a little possibility of
> >> >> >>> collision
>
> >> >> >>> sha1_hash(self.agg_name)
>
> >> >> >>> def utf8encoded(data):
> >> >> >>> šif data is None:
> >> >> >>> š šreturn None
> >> >> >>> šif isinstance(data, unicode):
> >> >> >>> š šreturn unicode(data).encode('utf-8')
> >> >> >>> šelse:
> >> >> >>> š šreturn data
>
> >> >> >>> def sha1_hash(value):
> >> >> >>> šreturn hashlib.sha1(utf8encoded(value)).hexdigest()
>
> >> >> >>> On Oct 24, 9:26 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >>>> Hi Dmitry,
> >> >> >>>> š Glad to hear it was helpful! šNot sure when you checked it out 
> >> >> >>>> last,
> >> >> >>>> but I made a number of good (I think) improvements in the last 
> >> >> >>>> couple
> >> >> >>>> days, such as continuations to allow splitting large groups of work
> >> >> >>>> up.
>
> >> >> >>>> Robert
>
> >> >> >>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 07:57, Dmitry <[email protected]> 
> >> >> >>>> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>> Robert,
>
> >> >> >>>>> You grouping_with_date_rollup.py example was extremely helpful. 
> >> >> >>>>> Thanks
> >> >> >>>>> a lot again! :)
>
> >> >> >>>>> On Oct 14, 8:47 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>>> Hey Carles,
> >> >> >>>>>> š Glad it seems helpful. šI am hoping to get time today to push 
> >> >> >>>>>> out
> >> >> >>>>>> some revisions and sample code.
>
> >> >> >>>>>> Robert
>
> >> >> >>>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:50, Carles Gonzalez 
> >> >> >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>>>> Robert, I took a brief inspection at your code and seems very 
> >> >> >>>>>>> cool. Exactly
> >> >> >>>>>>> what i was lloking for for my report generation and such.
> >> >> >>>>>>> I'm looking forward for more examples, but it seems a very 
> >> >> >>>>>>> valuable addition
> >> >> >>>>>>> for our toolbox.
> >> >> >>>>>>> Thanks a lot!
>
> >> >> >>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Carles Gonzalez 
> >> >> >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>> Neat! I'm going to see this code, hopefully I'll understand 
> >> >> >>>>>>>> something :)
> >> >> >>>>>>>> On Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Robert Kluin 
> >> >> >>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
> >> >> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> Hey Dmitry,
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> š šIn case it might help, I pushed some code to bitbucket. 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> šAt the
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> moment I would (personally) say the code is not too pretty, 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> but it
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> works well. š:)
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> š š šhttp://bitbucket.org/thebobert/slagg
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> š Sorry it does not really have good documentation at the 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> moment, but
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> I think the basic example I threw together will give you a 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> good idea
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> of how to use it. šI need to do another cleanup pass over the 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> API to
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> make a few more refinements.
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> š šI pulled this code out of one of my apps, and tried to 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> quickly
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> refactor it to be a bit more generic. šWe are currently using
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> basically the same code in three apps to do some really 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> complex
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> calculations. šAs soon as I get time I will get an example up 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> showing
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> how to use it for neat stuff, like overall, yearly, monthly, 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> and daily
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> aggregates across multiple values (like total dollars and 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> quantity).
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> The cool thing is that you can do all of those aggregations 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> across
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> various groupings, like customer, company, contact, and 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> sales-person,
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> at once. šI'll get that code pushed out in the next few days.
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> š Would love to get some feedback on it.
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> Robert
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 17:26, Dmitry 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Ben, thanks for your code! I'm trying to understand all this 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> stuff
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> too...
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Robert, any success with your "library"? May be you've 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> already done
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> all stuff we are trying to implement...
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> p.s. where is Brett S.:) would like to hear his comments on 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> this
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> On Sep 21, 1:49 pm, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your insights. I would love feedback on this 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> implementation
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> (Brett S. suggested we send in our code for
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> this)http://pastebin.com/3pUhFdk8
>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> This implementation is for just one materialized view row 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> at a time
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> (e.g. a simple counter, no presence markers). Hopefully 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> putting an ETA
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> on the transactional task will relieve the write pressure, 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> since
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> usually it should be an old update with an out-of-date 
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> sequence number
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> and be
>
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>
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