Well, according to the 'free' command, even when I'm getting these
slowdowns, I'm nowhere close to the memory limits:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3925244 392900 3532344 0 23608 123856
Like I said, my Linux server doesn't do much. It doesn't get much traffic,
either. So it has plenty of free memory.
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 12:49:21 UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Have you checked memory consumption?
>
> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 10:15:59 UTC-5, horridohobbyist wrote:
>>
>> Scratch my solution. It's not correct. My test results are all over the
>> place. You don't even have to wait an hour. Within the span of 15 minutes,
>> I've gone from fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast to super-slow (90+
>> seconds), super-slow to slow, slow, slow, slow. The variability seems to be
>> pseudo-random.
>>
>> I should also mention that "threads=30" doesn't always work. This is
>> probably part of the pseudo-random nature of the problem.
>>
>> I don't think the solution lies in configuring "processes" and "threads"
>> in the Apache web2py configuration. At this point, I don't know what else
>> to do or try.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 11:01:16 UTC-4, horridohobbyist wrote:
>>>
>>> Something very strange is going on. After I've run the Welcome test
>>> where the results are consistently fast (ie, ~1.6 seconds), if I wait an
>>> hour or so and run the test again, I get something like the following:
>>>
>>> Begin...
>>> Elapsed time: 97.1873888969
>>> Percentage fill: 41.9664268585
>>> Begin...
>>> Elapsed time: 1.63321781158
>>> Percentage fill: 41.9664268585
>>> Begin...
>>> Elapsed time: 13.2418119907
>>> Percentage fill: 41.9664268585
>>> Begin...
>>> Elapsed time: 1.62313604355
>>> Percentage fill: 41.9664268585
>>> Begin...
>>> Elapsed time: 13.3058979511
>>> Percentage fill: 41.9664268585
>>>
>>> The first run is ENORMOUSLY slow. Subsequently, the runtimes alternate
>>> between fast and slow (ie, 1.6 seconds vs 13 seconds).
>>>
>>> To reiterate: This happens if I give the server lots of time before I
>>> resume testing. Please note that nothing much else is happening on the
>>> server; it gets very little traffic.
>>>
>>> If I restart Apache, then I get back to the initial situation where the
>>> results are consistently fast. *This pattern is repeatable*.
>>>
>>> FYI, I'm using "processes=2" and "threads=1".
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 20 March 2014 11:34:03 UTC-4, horridohobbyist wrote:
>>>>
>>>> processes=1 and threads=30 also seems to solve the performance problem.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I'm having a dickens of a time reproducing the problem in my
>>>> servers (either the actual server or the VM). I have not been able to
>>>> discover how to reset the state of my tests, so I have to blindly go
>>>> around
>>>> trying to reproduce the problem. I thought it might be a caching problem
>>>> in
>>>> the browser, but clearing the browser cache doesn't seem to reset the
>>>> state. Restarting Apache doesn't always reset the state, either.
>>>> Restarting
>>>> the browser doesn't reset the state. In desperation, I've even tried
>>>> rebooting the systems. Nada.
>>>>
>>>> This is very frustrating. I shall have to continue my investigation
>>>> before coming to a definitive conclusion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 19 March 2014 21:06:02 UTC-4, Tim Richardson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Try threads = 30 or 50 or 100; that would be interesting. Every
>>>>> request which is routed through web2py will try to start a new thread.
>>>>> Every web page will potentially generate multiple requests (for assets
>>>>> like
>>>>> images, scripts etc). So you can potentially need a lot of threads. When
>>>>> you started two processes, you may not have specified threads which meant
>>>>> you had a pool of 30 threads (and then you saw better performance). Using
>>>>> few threads than that isn't going to conclude very much, I think.
>>>>>
>>>>
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