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Mark Payne updated NIFI-9061:
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Fix Version/s: 1.15.0
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Improve responsiveness of the UI
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> Key: NIFI-9061
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-9061
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Framework, Core UI
> Reporter: Mark Payne
> Assignee: Mark Payne
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.15.0
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> When NiFi is deployed as a large cluster with many components, the UI often
> starts to feel sluggish. Refreshing the stats can take many seconds. To find
> out what the culprit was, I created a 10 node cluster. I then created a
> Process Group and added 100 Processors to the group (20 sets of 5 with each
> of the 5 connected together).
> I then refreshed the stats many times. Each refresh took several seconds.
> I narrowed down the amount of time taken to 3 key elements:
> - On the backend, the longest part of the request was merging responses from
> all nodes by the Cluster Coordinator. The performance could be narrowed down
> to the TimeAdapter that is used on many elements such as ProcessorStatus that
> is used by Jackson to parse the timestamp and turn it into a Date object.
> This uses a DateTimeFormatter but creates a new one for each invocation,
> which is expensive. This can be cached & reused.
> - There is a bug in ThreadPoolRequestReplicator. We have properties in
> nifi.properties for {{nifi.cluster.node.protocol.threads}} and
> {{nifi.cluster.node.protocol.max.threads}}. However, because of the way the
> thread pool is used, we never actually scale beyond the value of the
> {{nifi.cluster.node.protocol.threads}} property. By default, that means we
> never use more than 10 threads. And if we have 10 node cluster, and each UI
> refresh makes 4 requests, that's 40 requests that must be replicated (1 per
> node). And those get queued up instead of the thread pool growing. We can
> address this by dropping the {{nifi.cluster.node.protocol.threads}} property
> and just scaling up to {{nifi.cluster.node.protocol.max.threads}} threads,
> allowing scaling down to 0 if no active requests.
> - The UI rendering is slow. Using Chrome's profiler, I find that, by far, the
> largest amount of time rendering the canvas is spent in the nf-canvas-utils
> ellipsis() method, determining whether or not ellipses are needed.
> Specifically, the call to {{node.getSubStringLength()}} is very expensive and
> is always called for each processor name, type, bundle, connection names, pg
> name, etc. We can significantly improve this by keeping a cache of [text,
> component width, text style] -> length to trim to before adding ellipsis (or
> a -1 to indicate it should not be trimmed). This will eliminate a very large
> proportion of these calls
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