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Maximilian Michels commented on BEAM-8944:
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Essentially, yes. Especially, this is a concern for latency because Flink has
to hold back in-flight elements while performing the checkpoint alignment of
the operators. It appears the alignment is off due to the Python bundles not
completing in time. Not sure why that is the case. We use the load-balancing
feature of DefaultJobBundleFactory where we use 16 Python environment and
round-robin them.
> Python SDK harness performance degradation with UnboundedThreadPoolExecutor
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: BEAM-8944
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-8944
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: sdk-py-harness
> Affects Versions: 2.18.0
> Reporter: Yichi Zhang
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.18.0
>
> Attachments: profiling.png, profiling_one_thread.png,
> profiling_twelve_threads.png
>
> Time Spent: 4h 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> We are seeing a performance degradation for python streaming word count load
> tests.
>
> After some investigation, it appears to be caused by swapping the original
> ThreadPoolExecutor to UnboundedThreadPoolExecutor in sdk worker. Suspicion is
> that python performance is worse with more threads on cpu-bounded tasks.
>
> A simple test for comparing the multiple thread pool executor performance:
>
> {code:python}
> def test_performance(self):
> def run_perf(executor):
> total_number = 1000000
> q = queue.Queue()
> def task(number):
> hash(number)
> q.put(number + 200)
> return number
> t = time.time()
> count = 0
> for i in range(200):
> q.put(i)
> while count < total_number:
> executor.submit(task, q.get(block=True))
> count += 1
> print('%s uses %s' % (executor, time.time() - t))
> with UnboundedThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
> run_perf(executor)
> with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
> run_perf(executor)
> with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=12) as executor:
> run_perf(executor)
> {code}
> Results:
> <apache_beam.utils.thread_pool_executor.UnboundedThreadPoolExecutor object at
> 0x7fab400dbe50> uses 268.160675049
> <concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor object at 0x7fab40096290> uses
> 79.904583931
> <concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor object at 0x7fab400dbe50> uses
> 191.179054976
> ```
> Profiling:
> UnboundedThreadPoolExecutor:
> !profiling.png!
> 1 Thread ThreadPoolExecutor:
> !profiling_one_thread.png!
> 12 Threads ThreadPoolExecutor:
> !profiling_twelve_threads.png!
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