Hi Remy,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:16 PM Rémy Maucherat <r...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 5:08 PM Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 3:34 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 15/09/2020 12:46, Martin Grigorov wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:37 PM Martin Grigorov <
> mgrigo...@apache.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> I am running some load tests on Tomcat and I've noticed that when
> > HTTP2
> > > is
> > > >> enabled the throughput drops considerably.
> > > >>
> > > >> Here are the steps to reproduce:
> > > >>
> > > >> 1) Enable HTTP2, e.g. by commenting out this connector:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/d381d87005fa89d1f19d9091c0954f317c135d9d/conf/server.xml#L103-L112
> > > >>
> > > >> 2) Download Vegeta load tool from:
> > > >> https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta/releases/
> > > >>
> > > >> 3) Run the load tests:
> > > >>
> > > >> 3.1) HTTP/1.1
> > > >> echo -e '{"method": "GET", "url": "http://localhost:8080/examples/
> "}'
> > |
> > > >> vegeta attack -format=json  -rate=0 -max-workers=1000 -duration=10s
> |
> > > >> vegeta encode > /tmp/http1.json; and vegeta report -type=json
> > > >> /tmp/http1.json | jq .
> > > >>
> > > >> 3.2) HTTP2
> > > >> echo -e '{"method": "GET", "url": "https://localhost:8443/examples/
> > "}'
> > > |
> > > >> vegeta attack -format=json -http2 -rate=0 -max-workers=1000
> -insecure
> > > >> -duration=10s | vegeta encode > /tmp/http2.json; and vegeta report
> > > >> -type=json /tmp/http2.json | jq .
> > > >>
> > > >> As explained at https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta#-rate -rate=0
> means
> > > >> that Vegeta will try to send as many requests as possible with the
> > > >> configured number of workers.
> > > >> I use '-insecure' because I use self-signed certificate.
> > > >>
> > > >> On my machine I get around 14-15K reqs/sec for HTTP1.1 with only
> > > responses
> > > >> with code=200 .
> > > >> But for HTTP2 Tomcat starts returning such kind of errors:
> > > >>
> > > >>  "errors": [
> > > >>     "Get \"https://localhost:8443/examples/\": http2: server sent
> > > GOAWAY
> > > >> and closed the connection; LastStreamID=9259,
> ErrCode=PROTOCOL_ERROR,
> > > >> debug=\"Stream [9,151] has been closed for some time\"",
> > > >>     "http2: server sent GOAWAY and closed the connection;
> > > >> LastStreamID=9259, ErrCode=PROTOCOL_ERROR, debug=\"Stream [9,151]
> has
> > > been
> > > >> closed for some time\"",
> > > >>     "Get \"https://localhost:8443/examples/\": http2: server sent
> > > GOAWAY
> > > >> and closed the connection; LastStreamID=239, ErrCode=PROTOCOL_ERROR,
> > > >> debug=\"Stream [49] has been closed for some time\""
> > > >>   ]
> > > >>
> > > >> when I ask for more than 2000 reqs/sec, i.e. -rate=2000/1s
> > >
> > > That indicates that the client has sent a frame associated with a
> stream
> > > that the server closed previously and that that stream has been removed
> > > from the Map of known streams to make room for new ones. See
> > > Http2UpgardeHandler.pruneClosedStreams()
> > >
> > > It looks like the client is making assumptions about server behaviour
> > > that go beyond the requirements of RFC 7540, section 5.3.4.
> > >
> >
> > This is possible!
> > I've just tested with two more HTTP2 impls:
> >
> > 1) Node.js
> >
> > http2-server.js
> > ===================================================
> > const http2 = require('http2');
> > const fs = require('fs');
> >
> > const server = http2.createSecureServer({
> >     key: fs.readFileSync('/path/to/server.key'),
> >     cert: fs.readFileSync('/path/to/server.crt')
> > });
> > server.on('error', (err) => console.error(err));
> >
> > server.on('stream', (stream, headers) => {
> >     // stream is a Duplex
> >     stream.respond({
> >         'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8',
> >         ':status': 200
> >     });
> >     stream.end('Hello world!');
> > });
> >
> > server.listen(18080);
> > ===================================================
> >
> > run with: node http2-server.js
> >
> > Runs fine with -rate=0 and gives around 8K reqs/sec
> >
> > 2) Rust
> >
> > Cargo.toml
> > ===================================================
> > [package]
> > name = "my-http2-server"
> > version = "0.0.1"
> > publish = false
> > authors = ["Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>"]
> > license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
> > description = "Load test HTTP/2 "
> > repository = "https://github.com/martin-g/http2-server-rust";
> > keywords = ["http2"]
> > edition = "2018"
> >
> > [dependencies]
> > actix-web = { version = "3", features = ["openssl"] }
> > openssl = { version = "0.10", features = ["v110"] }
> > ===================================================
> >
> > src/main.rs
> > ===================================================
> > use actix_web::{web, App, HttpRequest, HttpServer, Responder};
> > use openssl::ssl::{SslAcceptor, SslFiletype, SslMethod};
> >
> > async fn index(_req: HttpRequest) -> impl Responder {
> > "Hello world!"
> > }
> >
> > #[actix_web::main]
> > async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
> > let mut builder =
> > SslAcceptor::mozilla_intermediate(SslMethod::tls()).unwrap();
> > builder
> > .set_private_key_file("/path/to/server.key", SslFiletype::PEM)
> > .unwrap();
> > builder.set_certificate_chain_file("/path/to/server.crt").unwrap();
> >
> > HttpServer::new(|| App::new().route("/", web::get().to(index)))
> > .bind_openssl("127.0.0.1:18080", builder)?
> > .run()
> > .await
> > }
> > ===================================================
> >
> > run with: cargo run
> > Again no errors, throughput: 3K reqs/sec
> >
> > I will test with Netty tomorrow too, but so far it looks like only Tomcat
> > fails under load.
> >
> >
> >
> > > >> All the access logs look like:
> > > >>
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >> 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2020:13:59:24 +0300] "GET /examples/ HTTP/2.0"
> > 200
> > > >> 1126
> > > >>
> > > >> i.e. there are no error codes, just 200.
> > > >> Vegeta reports the error with status code = 0. I think this just
> means
> > > >> that it didn't get a proper HTTP response but just TCP error.
> > > >> There are no errors in catalina.out.
> > > >>
> > > >> Are there any settings I can tune to get better throughput with
> HTTP2
> > ?
> > > >>
> > > >> Tomcat 10.0.0-M8.
> > >
> > > If you really want to maximise throughput then you need to reduce the
> > > number of concurrent requests to (or a little above) the number of
> cores
> > > available on the server. Go higher and you'll start to see throughput
> > > tail off due to context switching.
> > >
> > > If you want to demonstrate throughput with a large number of clients
> > > you'll probably need to experiment with both maxThreads,
> > >
> >
> > I've forgot to say that I use maxThreads=8.
> >
> >
> > > maxConcurrentStreams and maxConcurrentStreamExecution.
> > >
> > > If I had to guess, I'd expect maxConcurrentStreams ==
> > > maxConcurrentStreamExecution and low numbers for all of them to give
> the
> > > best results.
> > >
> >
> > I will check those tomorrow!
> >
>
> I use h2load, and IMO I have very good performance with h2c. No errors.
> However, same as your tool, it's concurrency flag only controls how many
> streams it will use *inside a single connection* [I respect that, but I
>

I think this is not the case here.
As far as I can see Vegeta does not use custom ClientConnPool and the
default pool in net::http2 shares many connections per host:port key:
https://github.com/golang/net/blob/62affa334b73ec65ed44a326519ac12c421905e3/http2/client_conn_pool.go



> would have expected instead the tool would also use multiple connections in
> an attempt to simulate multiple users, but nope]. This can only go so far
> and the performance numbers caused me to add the flags to limit stream
> concurrency.
>
> Rémy
>

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