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Todd Lipcon commented on KUDU-1465:
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In my test setup with ~70 tablet servers and a 50-thread YCSB client on each,
running workload C (100% random-read) across a 1B-row table, changing the batch
size from the default 1MB down to 4KB increased the read throughput from 670K
ops/sec to 1044K ops/sec (56% improvement). This test was running with
jemalloc, but I imagine this would help tcmalloc as well.
> Large allocations for scanner result buffers harm allocator thread caching
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> Key: KUDU-1465
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1465
> Project: Kudu
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: perf
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Todd Lipcon
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> I was looking at the performance of a random-read stress test on a 70 node
> cluster and found that threads were often spending time in allocator
> contention, particularly when deallocating RpcSidecar objects. After a bit of
> analysis, I determined this is because we always preallocate buffers of 1MB
> (the default batch size) even if the response is only going to be a single
> row. Such large allocations go directly to the central freelist instead of
> using thread-local caches.
> As a simple test, I used the set_flag command to drop the default batch size
> to 4KB, and the read throughput (reads/second) increased substantially.
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