Hello-
I will reply to my own post with new findings and observations. About
the slowness of generate, I just don't believe that it should take many
hours to generate (any sized) list on a database that is a couple million
large. I could do the equivalant on plain text lists using grep, sort, uniq
in just minutes. I *must* be doing something wrong.
I dug into it today. Could someone correct me if I am wrong on any of
this? I couldn't find any written information about this anywhere.
1. The generate seems to be broken into three phases, each a separate
mapreduce command. The first phase runs through all the urls in the
crawldb, and throws out any that aren't eligable for crawling (by
crawldate).
2. The second phase partitions by hostname and ranks according to
frequency. It also cuts out repeat requests to a host if the number is too
high (set by a parameter), and then sorts the urls by frequency.
3. The third phase updates the database with the information that the
url is being crawled and should not be handed out to anyone else.
By observing what was going on, I could see that the first phase seems
to take a couple of hours. I can change the debug level of nutch to debug
and see all the rejected urls being generated, and it does seem to be slow,
a couple per second (my db has about 200k crawled things, and about 2000000
uncrawled, so about 1 in 10 should be rejected.... How can nutch only be
going at a rate of about 20 per second, this is way too slow).
I also looked to see if DNS lookups were slowing me down, but as far as
I can tell not. This is because the first phase doesn't even do DNS, yet is
slow, and second because I used Wireshark to look for dns lookups and found
none.
Can someone tell me the expected time for generate to run? 6 hours is
too long!
thanks
-J
----- Original Message -----
From: "misc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <nutch-agent@lucene.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:27 PM
Subject: New to nutch, seem to be problems
Hello-
My configuration and stats are at the end of this email. I have set up
nutch to crawl 100,000 urls. The first pass (of 100,000) items went well,
but problems started after this.
1. Generate takes many hours to complete. It doesn't matter whether I
generate 1 million or 1000 items, it takes about 5 hours to complete. Is
this normal?
2. Fetch works great, until it is done. It then freezes up
indefinitely. It can fetch 1000000 pages in about 12 hours, and all the
fetched content is in /tmp, but then it just sits there, not returning to
the command line. I have let it sit for about 12 hours and eventually broke
down and cancelled it. If I try to undate the database it of course fails.
3. Fetch2 runs very slowly, even though I am using 80 threads, I only
download an object per every few seconds (1 every 5 or 10 seconds). From
the log, I can see that almost always 79 or 80 threads are spinWaiting.
4. I can't tell if fetch2 freezes like fetch does, as I haven't been
able to wait the many days it will take to go through a full fetch with
fetch2.
Configuration:
Core duo 2.4GhZ, 1 gig ram, 750GB hard drive.
The ethernet connection has a dedicated 1gb connection to the web, so
certainly that isn't a problem.
I have tested on nutch 0.9 and the newest daily build from 2007-08-28.
I seeded with urls from the opendirectory, 100000. I first ran a pass
to load all 100000, then took the topN=1million (10 times larger than the
first set of urls). The first pass had no problem, the second pass (and
beyond) is where the problems began.
