On 01.04.2008 18:52, footh wrote:
Just ran a very simple test using the changes from revision 642694 and had
unusual results.
Byte arrays, and consequently the BufferedOutputStream still took up large
amounts of retained
space in the total memory usage. So, this didn't change.
However, the memory did not clean up neatly like it did before...after about 10
minutes. Before,
I would do, say 1000 samples, and total Tomcat memory would balloon to a point.
Then I'd wait 10
minutes and would observe the byte array data cleaning up in the profiler with
total Tomcat memory
staying the same. After that, I'd run another 1000 samples and the total
Tomcat memory would not
increase again until hitting around the 1000th sample and the cycle would
repeat.
With these new changes, the memory cleaned up a little bit, but not nearly as
much as before. And
the total memory would start increasing before I hit the control sample size.
The BufferedOutputStream path appears to be the same as well - flowing up to
ContinuationsManagerImpl. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? I did make this
changes to version
2.1.10 NOT 2.1.11 since I haven't upgraded my site to the new version yet.
That's no good news :( And I can't see how this should be possible.
Which changes exactly did you apply? Only rev 642694 [1]? The actual two
files changed are ContinuationContext (added method onSuspend()) and
AbstractContinuable (calling context.onSuspend() right before
Continuation.suspend()). The method only nulls out some values, so I
can't see how this should have worsen the situation. Both files had not
changed between 2.1.10 and 2.1.11, so this can neither be a reason.
Second, this was only the first approach. After Torsten's review I did a
more "brave" approach setting the complete context to null before the
continuation gets suspended [2]. Here I reverted the above 2 changes to
AbstractContiuable and ContinuationsContext. The fix went into
Continuation (storing functionName and setting context to null in
suspend()) and JavaInterpreter (instantiating Continuation with
functionName and retrieving it from there later on). Again I can't see
how this should have worsen the situation. Both files had again not
changed since 2.1.10.
Then in order to fix COCOON-2109 [3] I applied another fix [4]. If that
one helps you at all pretty much depends on whether you access old
continuations or not (when using a wizard you not only go forward along
the expected path (page 1, page 2, etc.) but also go back).
The last important fix is for synchronization issues in
ContinuationsManagerImpl [5]. This definitely has some impact, it's
usually unlikely that fixing synchronization improves performance. If
you don't have this fix I can imagine that the situation is as bad as
you describe it for the following reasons: If something creates a new
continuation while the clean up thread for removing expired
continuations is active it kicks the latter one with a
ConcurrentModificationException - and the clean up just stops. This
would mean though that it was just bad luck in your new test.
I don't know how exactly you profiled your system. You should definitely
NOT run on debug log level. I fixed the synchronization issues in favor
of the debug log level: There are no longer two sets maintained but the
second set (which was for debugging purposes only) gets recreated "on
demand", i.e. debug log level, which locks the manager for that time.
But it should improve the overall situation though.
Joerg
[1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=642694
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=642756
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2109
[4] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=642843
[5] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=643295
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