On 6/23/09 10:22 AM, Christian Boos wrote:
> Shane Caraveo wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've been looking into performance and profiling, and noticed the
>> gc.collect that happens at the end of every request (in trac.web.main).
>>    On my osx dev box, this garbage collection is taking roughly 37% of
>> the request time on a simple template, and removing it shows the roughly
>> the same percent increase in requests/second (with ab).  I haven't
>> tested with more intensive templates (e.g. reports or timeline) where I
>> assume it would take less percent, however this is pretty significant.
>>
>> Removing it unfortunately introduces some issues with the database pool
>> and postgres (may be more related to how we're using the database).  It
>> also looks like, based on ticket 6614, that it will introduce a number
>> of other issues if it is removed.  I haven't fully digested 6614 yet,
>> it's pretty lengthy.
>>
>> I'm just wondering if anyone has any comments or thoughts about this.
>>
>
> It's been discussed not so long ago on Trac-Dev, see
> http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev/msg/9dcdaffccc74471c
> As you can see there, I did some tests recently, but unfortunately not
> on Linux, where the benefits of the explicit gc.collect() were the more
> important, IIRC (not sure I ever digested #6614 either ;-) ).

That thread happened while I was away.  The connection pooling is 
definitely a problem for me and easy to reproduce, and would have to be 
the first thing I fix if I remove the garbage collection.

I would suggest using ab (apache bench) for simple stress testing.

Shane

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