Mohit,

I agree that 45-50 records per second is quite slow. I'm not very familiar with 
the implementation of
ConvertCSVToAvro, but it may well be that it must perform some sort of 
initialization for each FlowFile
that it receives, which would explain why it's fast for a single incoming 
FlowFile and slow for a large number.

Additionally, when you start splitting the data like that, you're generating a 
lot more FlowFiles, which means
a lot more updates to both the FlowFile Repository and the Provenance 
Repository. As a result, you're basically
taxing the NiFi framework far more than if you keep the data as a single 
FlowFile. On my laptop, though, I would
expect more than 45-50 FlowFiles per second through most processors, but I 
don't know what kind of hardware
you are running on.

In general, though, it is best to keep data together instead of splitting it 
apart. Since the ConvertCSVToAvro can
handle many CSV records, is there a reason to split the data to begin with? 
Also, I would recommend you look
at using the Record-based processors [1][2] such as ConvertRecord instead of 
the ConvertABCtoXYZ processors, as
those are older processors and often don't work as well and the Record-oriented 
processors often allow you to keep
data together as a single FlowFile throughout your entire flow, which makes the 
performance far better and makes the
flow much easier to design.

Thanks
-Mark



[1] https://blogs.apache.org/nifi/entry/record-oriented-data-with-nifi
[2] 
https://bryanbende.com/development/2017/06/20/apache-nifi-records-and-schema-registries


On Apr 2, 2018, at 8:49 AM, Mohit 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi,

I’m trying to capture bad records from ConvertCSVToAvro processor. For that, 
I’m using two SplitText processors in a row to create chunks and then each 
record per flow file.

My flow is  - ListFile -> FetchFile -> SplitText(10000 records) -> SplitText(1 
record) -> ConvertCSVToAvro -> *(futher processing)

I have a 10 MB file with 15 columns per row and 64000 records. Normal flow 
(without SplitText) completes in few seconds. But when I’m using the above 
flow, ConvertCSVToAvro processor works drastically slow(45-50 rec/sec).
I’m not able to conclude where I’m doing wrong in the flow.

I’m using Nifi 1.5.0 .

Any quick input would be appreciated.



Thanks,
Mohit

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