is this a variation of a troll ?

On Apr 13, 12:58 am, timp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm..  This may be a valid criticism.
>
> However.  My gut tells me otherwise.  I made the code set for tests
> incredibly small.
> And all of the nodeJS/java/groovy are using the same queries in ab testing.
>
> (But, this being said, my gut is often wrong though.  Maybe there is some
> flag or something I'm missing in nodeJS.)
>
> If I were a nodeJS enthusiast,
> I would probably get one thing from this email, and that is that the mongo
> db to javascript mechanisms need to be profiled.
>
> As for grails, I probably shouldn't have used groovy for things that need
> to run fast.
> But I'm not interested in figuring this out at the moment.
>
> Anyhow, your project is really interesting, good luck with it.
>
> -tim
>
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>
> On Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:43:39 PM UTC-4, Marak Squires wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, you should take the time to decide on a single implementation and
> > actually try to figure out what's going on.
>
> > I don't really think any of the benchmarks you've posted
> >  are indicative of performance for the specific software suite they are
> > benchmarking.
>
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:32 PM, timp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Hey there, I bring a few updates.
> >> Which may be more an insight into compulsive programmer behavior than
> >> anything else :-)   However:
>
> >> So yesterday I thought, well, let's see if I just use nodeJS as the front
> >> end, and use java as the backend.
>
> >> So what I did, was use "gear man" to create a work queue, which I wrote
> >> into via nodeJS and then had a worker process consuming those tasks and
> >> writing back results.
>
> >> (if you think to yourself, well this just sounds stupid, I sort of agree.)
>
> >> Anyhow, when I shifted the work to the java, I was able to get the
> >> throughput up to 160 rps .. For "full" login.  This means a full
> >> journal/shop/etc...
> >> Which is about 1.5 * more data than I was doing for the 120 rps in
> >> nodeJS.  (because I had clipped, and gotten rid of partial datasets)
>
> >> So yesterday, I thought to myself.  OK.  This will be fine.
>
> >> ---
>
> >> But then today, I thought to myself, "this is just stupid. Using a worker
> >> queue should be SLOWER than using a epoll/kqueue whatnot.
> >> I just don't get why grails would be so much slower than nodeJS in front
> >> of a work queue in front of java."
>
> >> So, I thought to myself, let's see if I can get rid of grails.
>
> >> At first I was going to use, yet another framework, one called "play" but
> >> after reading their forums, filled with complaints, I thought, ahhh, why am
> >> I even using a framework?
>
> >> And in the last few hours I made a JSP, Web project in eclipse, got it
> >> deployed to Tomcat, and
>
> >> WALAH!!!!
>
> >> Requests per second:    351.33 [#/sec] (mean)
> >> Full data.
>
> >> 10 times faster than grails.  (wtf is grails doing?)
> >> 4 times faster than nodeJS.
>
> >> I'm not sure what this means.
> >> I guess it means, if anyone is reading this, having similar performance
> >> issues with basically a REST/JSON service.
> >> Maybe it would be better to skip *all* of the frameworks.
>
> >> Anyway.
>
> >> I would still rather have LVMM pages.
>
> >> It was fun doing the async + callbacks.  Although I will not miss having
> >> no compile time checking.
>
> >> Regards,
>
> >> -tim
>
> >> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:36:28 AM UTC-4, christkv wrote:
>
> >>> if perf is dropping over time I suspect a possible memory leak causing
> >>> the gc to have to go through longer and longer of uncollectable items.
>
> >>> it might be worth just writing a simple test app dropping mongoskin
> >>> and hitting the driver directly.
>
> >>> On Apr 11, 12:12 am, timp <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> > Oh well, thanks for your responses so far.
>
> >>> > If anyone has any real world experiences with scaling and using
> >>> nodeJS, I
> >>> > would be interested in how you set up things computationally.
>
> >>> > Did you actually have the nodeJS perform work?  Or just fetch results?
>
> >>> > If just fetch results, what did you use on your back end?
>
> >>> > Especially, did you even use a framework?
>
> >>> > For instance I can see having maybe 50 workers in java/c#/c++ sitting
> >>> on
> >>> > queues, waiting for requests and feeding them back results.
>
> >>> > But, I'm interested in what someone says who has actually done it.
>
> >>> > -tim
>
> >>> > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:57:01 PM UTC-4, timp wrote:
>
> >>> > > (I think) I just tried the native bson with the pages
>
> >>> > > or at least I did this:
>
> >>> > > pm install mongodb --mongodb:native
> >>> > > seemed to compile things
>
> >>> > > the mongoskin says it will use it if it is there
>
> >>> > > tests are coming out about the same.  +/- 5 fps
>
> >>> > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:46:38 PM UTC-4, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> >>> > >> Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2012, 10:15 -0700 schrieb timp:
> >>> > >> > But at the same time, I am truly annoyed at how slow these web
> >>> > >> > servers/frameworks are.
>
> >>> > >> Me too. :D
>
> >>> > >> I have a small node.js proxy running here, and even when it's just
> >>> > >> piping through a youtube video (using the normal Stream pipe
> >>> method)
> >>> > >> between the browser and youtube, nodes CPU usage goes way over 10%.
> >>> It
> >>> > >> takes half of what flash uses.
>
> >>> > >> Well, and if you look closer, you can see that e.g. 15% of the time
> >>> are
> >>> > >> spend with write completion callbacks which are probably nearly
> >>> never
> >>> > >> used. Still, each completed write means that there's a call from
> >>> C++
> >>> > >> land into JS land, a bunch of JS code and a call from JS to C++
> >>> (resume
> >>> > >> input).
>
> >>> > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:57:01 PM UTC-4, timp wrote:
>
> >>> > > (I think) I just tried the native bson with the pages
>
> >>> > > or at least I did this:
>
> >>> > > pm install mongodb --mongodb:native
> >>> > > seemed to compile things
>
> >>> > > the mongoskin says it will use it if it is there
>
> >>> > > tests are coming out about the same.  +/- 5 fps
>
> >>> > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:46:38 PM UTC-4, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> >>> > >> Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2012, 10:15 -0700 schrieb timp:
> >>> > >> > But at the same time, I am truly annoyed at how slow these web
> >>> > >> > servers/frameworks are.
>
> >>> > >> Me too. :D
>
> >>> > >> I have a small node.js proxy running here, and even when it's just
> >>> > >> piping through a youtube video (using the normal Stream pipe
> >>> method)
> >>> > >> between the browser and youtube, nodes CPU usage goes way over 10%.
> >>> It
> >>> > >> takes half of what flash uses.
>
> >>> > >> Well, and if you look closer, you can see that e.g. 15% of the time
> >>> are
> >>> > >> spend with write completion callbacks which are probably nearly
> >>> never
> >>> > >> used. Still, each completed write means that there's a call from
> >>> C++
> >>> > >> land into JS land, a bunch of JS code and a call from JS to C++
> >>> (resume
> >>> > >> input).
>
> >>> > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:57:01 PM UTC-4, timp wrote:
>
> >>> > > (I think) I just tried the native bson with the pages
>
> >>> > > or at least I did this:
>
> >>> > > pm install mongodb --mongodb:native
> >>> > > seemed to compile things
>
> >>> > > the mongoskin says it will use it if it is there
>
> >>> > > tests are coming out about the same.  +/- 5 fps
>
> >>> > > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:46:38 PM UTC-4, Jann Horn wrote:
>
> >>> > >> Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2012, 10:15 -0700 schrieb timp:
> >>> > >> > But at the same time, I am truly annoyed at how slow these web
> >>> > >> > servers/frameworks are.
>
> >>> > >> Me too. :D
>
> >>> > >> I have a small node.js proxy running here, and even when it's just
> >>> > >> piping through a youtube video (using the normal Stream pipe
> >>> method)
> >>> > >> between the browser and youtube, nodes CPU usage goes way over 10%.
> >>> It
> >>> > >> takes half of what flash uses.
>
> >>> > >> Well, and if you look closer, you can see that e.g. 15% of the time
> >>> are
> >>> > >> spend with write completion callbacks which are probably nearly
> >>> never
> >>> > >> used. Still, each completed write means that there's a call from
> >>> C++
> >>> > >> land into JS land, a bunch of JS code and a call from JS to C++
> >>> (resume
> >>> > >> input).
>
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