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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com> on 2012/05/08 00:38:29 UTC

Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Hi all,
We've had a number of cases of people reporting to us that file 
downloads are slow when passed through tomcat and I've not been able to 
reproduce the problem on Linux but finally was provided a windows XP VM 
that was able to reproduce the problem.

This is Apache 2.2.22 and mod_jk 1.2.32 with tomcat 5.0.30 (yeah, I know 
this is ancient.  I'll try with something newer tomorrow).

I have two URLs configured both with an identical iso file (roughly 
450MB) in size.
When I go through the URL configured to run directly through Apache the 
download speeds on the file are around 30MB/s which is reasonable for 
what I would expect on the network connection between the client and the 
web server.

The second URL is JkMount'ed through to tomcat and download the same 
file drops down to 5-6 MB/s (starts at 10-ish MB/s).

The one thing I haven't tried configuring is upping the ajp packet size 
because the version of tomcat I was provided doesn't support that, but 
otherwise the operating system is tuned so the TcpWindowSize is 131072.

Unfortunately, this is windows, and both apache and tomcat are local on 
the server so I can't sniff the packets between the two systems with 
wireshark.

I don't see anything on the mod_jk workers.properties configuration that 
deals with buffer sizes.

Hoping someone has some ideas on what to look at that might help tweak 
this thing to perform similarly to Apache direct downloads.

Thanks,
Andy

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RE: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>.
Andy-

On the receive side  *if you have windows scaling enabled* you supposedly *can* enhance the receive window by setting these registry keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System 
\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TCPWindowSize 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interface\TCPWindowSize
 registry values can be set to a maximum of 65,535 bytes (without window
 scaling) or 1,073,741,823 (with window scaling).
Microsoft does admit to 5GBPS hard limit for receive

On the send side you can increase thoughput by enabling CTCP (Compound TCP)
 netsh interface tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp

Loss negotiation can be mitigated by enabling Enhanced Control Notification algoithm via
netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=enabled 

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb878127

I remember QOS agents installed on both send and receive sides helped monitor and enhance Throughput 
Do you have QOS agents you can enable to track and reconfig send and receive parameters?

Thanks for the hard work collecting these stats..this will help me determine which connector to use going forward
Martin Gainty 
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> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 17:36:02 -0500
> From: awang@ptc.com
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP
> 
> So I cannot reproduce the slow down to 4-5MB/s on the same VM I was able 
> to reproduce it on once I copied the VM to an adequate vmware server.  
> But I do see some neat numbers in case people care.
> 
> I ran with ab -5 directly against apache, against a url mapped to ajp as 
> well as direct to the http connectors.
> The numbers were consistent between tomcat 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 so I'm 
> only going to post one set of numbers for tomcat.
> 
> This is against a windows XP SP3 with no sendbuffersize, tcpbuffersize 
> or scaling window tuning:
> Direct to apache http:
> Transfer rate:          21925.90 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.3      1       1
> Processing: 19593 20077 474.0  20045   20855
> Waiting:        1    2   0.6      2       3
> Total:      19593 20078 474.1  20046   20856
> 
> Through AJP:
> Transfer rate:          36732.95 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
> Processing: 10662 11984 879.6  12227   12975
> Waiting:        4    5   0.5      5       5
> Total:      10663 11984 879.7  12227   12976
> 
> Direct to tomcat http:
> Transfer rate:          30968.31 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   1.6      0       4
> Processing: 11326 14214 2655.1  15565   16952
> Waiting:        3    5   1.6      5       7
> Total:      11326 14215 2654.3  15565   16952
> 
> 
> Note how much better the both the tomcat results are than direct 
> apache.  Most interestingly, note how much better AJP is than direct 
> tomcat HTTP connector.  That was quite unexpected.
> 
> Here are the results from a Windows 2008 system on the same vm host:
> Direct to apache http:
> Transfer rate:          57968.69 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.1      1       1
> Processing:  7453 7594 181.8   7575    7890
> Waiting:        2   12  18.5      6      45
> Total:       7453 7594 181.8   7576    7890
> 
> Through AJP:
> Transfer rate:          31532.82 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
> Processing: 10723 13960 2813.3  15795   16409
> Waiting:        3    5   3.1      4      10
> Total:      10724 13961 2813.4  15795   16410
> 
> Direct to Tomcat http:
> Transfer rate:          37742.45 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       1
> Processing: 10974 11664 452.1  11812   12192
> Waiting:        2   14  25.2      4      59
> Total:      10974 11664 452.2  11813   12192
> 
> Tomcat http averaged better times, BUT ajp was able to perform faster at 
> times.  Direct HTTP to apache is way faster though but I think that's to 
> be expected.
> 
> So realistically, I think the 2008 numbers make sense to me and the XP 
> numbers show that XPs tcp stack is a piece of crap (which I think alot 
> of people already know).
> 
> I'm not sure what to make of the customer reports of the slow downs but 
> at this point, I'm going to have to ask them to use something like 
> ab.exe to do the downloads instead of Internet Explorer (most of them 
> use IE to do it).  Maybe there's some stupidity with IE.
> 
> Anyways, I'm closing the book on this (with a bookmark just in case) but 
> wanted to provide the numbers in case people were curious what I got.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
On 05/11/2012 04:51 AM, Mladen Turk wrote:
>
> I was following this tread and was hoping that someone will say:
> "Do not use workstation grade software for server applications"
> but no. XP (Win7 falls in the same category) has good network stack
> but focused on client applications.
> There is a good reason why MS charges extra $$ for server versions
> since they make sure your server application don't perform well on
> workstation software.
>
The problem is, we've seen the behaviour reported sporadically from 
customers on windows 2003 server.  The only case I've been able to find 
to reproduce it was this XP system.
>>
>> I'm not sure what to make of the customer reports of the slow downs 
>> but at this point, I'm going to have to ask them to use something 
>> like ab.exe to do the downloads instead of Internet Explorer (most of 
>> them use IE to do it). Maybe there's some stupidity
>> with IE.
>>
>
> IE tries to open several concurrent connection at once (RFC says that 
> number is max 3)
> I'm sure you can simulate that with 'ab -c 10 -k -n 10000 ...'
>
I'm not sure how this would be relevant though as the behavior is 
reproducible with a single connection to download a large file (no 
concurrenct connections to this site or any other site.
>
> There is nothing wrong with tomcat, mod_jk or httpd.
> It's just your use case.

I'm not convinced that there isn't something odd going on but for now 
I'll ignore it.  I may have a stupid use case, but we have had reports 
out in the field of what appear to be perfectly sane use cases that 
don't perform.  i just can't reproduce them.

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org>.
On 05/11/2012 12:36 AM, Andy Wang wrote:
> So I cannot reproduce the slow down to 4-5MB/s on the same VM I was able to reproduce it on once I copied the VM to an adequate vmware server. But I do see some neat numbers in case people care.
>

I was following this tread and was hoping that someone will say:
"Do not use workstation grade software for server applications"
but no. XP (Win7 falls in the same category) has good network stack
but focused on client applications.
There is a good reason why MS charges extra $$ for server versions
since they make sure your server application don't perform well on
workstation software.

>
> I'm not sure what to make of the customer reports of the slow downs but at this point, I'm going to have to ask them to use something like ab.exe to do the downloads instead of Internet Explorer (most of them use IE to do it). Maybe there's some stupidity
> with IE.
>

IE tries to open several concurrent connection at once (RFC says that number is max 3)
I'm sure you can simulate that with 'ab -c 10 -k -n 10000 ...'

> Anyways, I'm closing the book on this (with a bookmark just in case) but wanted to provide the numbers in case people were curious what I got.
>

There is nothing wrong with tomcat, mod_jk or httpd.
It's just your use case.



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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Pid <pi...@pidster.com>.
On 10/05/2012 23:36, Andy Wang wrote:
> So I cannot reproduce the slow down to 4-5MB/s on the same VM I was able
> to reproduce it on once I copied the VM to an adequate vmware server. 
> But I do see some neat numbers in case people care.
> 
> I ran with ab -5 directly against apache, against a url mapped to ajp as
> well as direct to the http connectors.
> The numbers were consistent between tomcat 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 so I'm
> only going to post one set of numbers for tomcat.
> 
> This is against a windows XP SP3 with no sendbuffersize, tcpbuffersize
> or scaling window tuning:
> Direct to apache http:
> Transfer rate:          21925.90 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.3      1       1
> Processing: 19593 20077 474.0  20045   20855
> Waiting:        1    2   0.6      2       3
> Total:      19593 20078 474.1  20046   20856
> 
> Through AJP:
> Transfer rate:          36732.95 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
> Processing: 10662 11984 879.6  12227   12975
> Waiting:        4    5   0.5      5       5
> Total:      10663 11984 879.7  12227   12976
> 
> Direct to tomcat http:
> Transfer rate:          30968.31 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   1.6      0       4
> Processing: 11326 14214 2655.1  15565   16952
> Waiting:        3    5   1.6      5       7
> Total:      11326 14215 2654.3  15565   16952
> 
> 
> Note how much better the both the tomcat results are than direct
> apache.  Most interestingly, note how much better AJP is than direct
> tomcat HTTP connector.  That was quite unexpected.
> 
> Here are the results from a Windows 2008 system on the same vm host:
> Direct to apache http:
> Transfer rate:          57968.69 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.1      1       1
> Processing:  7453 7594 181.8   7575    7890
> Waiting:        2   12  18.5      6      45
> Total:       7453 7594 181.8   7576    7890
> 
> Through AJP:
> Transfer rate:          31532.82 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
> Processing: 10723 13960 2813.3  15795   16409
> Waiting:        3    5   3.1      4      10
> Total:      10724 13961 2813.4  15795   16410
> 
> Direct to Tomcat http:
> Transfer rate:          37742.45 [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       1
> Processing: 10974 11664 452.1  11812   12192
> Waiting:        2   14  25.2      4      59
> Total:      10974 11664 452.2  11813   12192
> 
> Tomcat http averaged better times, BUT ajp was able to perform faster at
> times.  Direct HTTP to apache is way faster though but I think that's to
> be expected.

I'd guess that the default Context cache settings are giving Tomcat an
edge here.  HTTPD does not have caching enable OOTB.


p


> So realistically, I think the 2008 numbers make sense to me and the XP
> numbers show that XPs tcp stack is a piece of crap (which I think alot
> of people already know).
> 
> I'm not sure what to make of the customer reports of the slow downs but
> at this point, I'm going to have to ask them to use something like
> ab.exe to do the downloads instead of Internet Explorer (most of them
> use IE to do it).  Maybe there's some stupidity with IE.
> 
> Anyways, I'm closing the book on this (with a bookmark just in case) but
> wanted to provide the numbers in case people were curious what I got.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Andy,

On 5/10/12 6:36 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
> Direct to apache http: Transfer rate:          21925.90
> [Kbytes/sec] received
> 
> Through AJP: Transfer rate:          36732.95 [Kbytes/sec]
> received
> 
> Direct to tomcat http: Transfer rate:          30968.31
> [Kbytes/sec] received

Am I reading this right: httpd+AJP outperforms both direct-to-httpd
and direct-to-Tomcat? That seems like one of the following are true:

1. The laws of physics don't behave as we expect them to in this case,
and you should donate your rig to CERN.

2. Your data is so sensitive to some other external conditions that
this is a meaningless test.

- -chris
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
So I cannot reproduce the slow down to 4-5MB/s on the same VM I was able 
to reproduce it on once I copied the VM to an adequate vmware server.  
But I do see some neat numbers in case people care.

I ran with ab -5 directly against apache, against a url mapped to ajp as 
well as direct to the http connectors.
The numbers were consistent between tomcat 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 so I'm 
only going to post one set of numbers for tomcat.

This is against a windows XP SP3 with no sendbuffersize, tcpbuffersize 
or scaling window tuning:
Direct to apache http:
Transfer rate:          21925.90 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.3      1       1
Processing: 19593 20077 474.0  20045   20855
Waiting:        1    2   0.6      2       3
Total:      19593 20078 474.1  20046   20856

Through AJP:
Transfer rate:          36732.95 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
Processing: 10662 11984 879.6  12227   12975
Waiting:        4    5   0.5      5       5
Total:      10663 11984 879.7  12227   12976

Direct to tomcat http:
Transfer rate:          30968.31 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   1.6      0       4
Processing: 11326 14214 2655.1  15565   16952
Waiting:        3    5   1.6      5       7
Total:      11326 14215 2654.3  15565   16952


Note how much better the both the tomcat results are than direct 
apache.  Most interestingly, note how much better AJP is than direct 
tomcat HTTP connector.  That was quite unexpected.

Here are the results from a Windows 2008 system on the same vm host:
Direct to apache http:
Transfer rate:          57968.69 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.1      1       1
Processing:  7453 7594 181.8   7575    7890
Waiting:        2   12  18.5      6      45
Total:       7453 7594 181.8   7576    7890

Through AJP:
Transfer rate:          31532.82 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.2      1       1
Processing: 10723 13960 2813.3  15795   16409
Waiting:        3    5   3.1      4      10
Total:      10724 13961 2813.4  15795   16410

Direct to Tomcat http:
Transfer rate:          37742.45 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       1
Processing: 10974 11664 452.1  11812   12192
Waiting:        2   14  25.2      4      59
Total:      10974 11664 452.2  11813   12192

Tomcat http averaged better times, BUT ajp was able to perform faster at 
times.  Direct HTTP to apache is way faster though but I think that's to 
be expected.

So realistically, I think the 2008 numbers make sense to me and the XP 
numbers show that XPs tcp stack is a piece of crap (which I think alot 
of people already know).

I'm not sure what to make of the customer reports of the slow downs but 
at this point, I'm going to have to ask them to use something like 
ab.exe to do the downloads instead of Internet Explorer (most of them 
use IE to do it).  Maybe there's some stupidity with IE.

Anyways, I'm closing the book on this (with a bookmark just in case) but 
wanted to provide the numbers in case people were curious what I got.

Thanks,
Andy

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
I have solid numbers that I will e-mail in a follow up  by itself so 
it's not lossed in the shuffle.

Some answers to the comments inline.

Thanks,
Andy


>> Do you mean that Tomcat performance appears to be the same regardless
>> of version? That's both good and bad... I thought there were some
>> performance improvements to the connectors from 5.5->  6.0. Maybe that
>> was 4.x->5.5.
>>
Yeah, the download performance through AJP and through HTTP connectors 
is fairly consistent from 5.5->6.0->7.0
>>> Tomcat7 is using JDK 1.7 and this is interesting.  The benchmarks
>>> with tomcat7+jdk1.7 vary widely across the board (both through ajp
>>> and direct http to tomcat) from 30s-40sMB/s. Java 1.6 seems alot
>>> more consistent.  Not sure why yet.
>> That is interesting. On the other hand, the server /is/ on a virtual
>> machine, and you never know what other processes are stealing focus.
>> Many VMs are notorious for bad IO throughput (I'm looking at you, 
>> OpenVZ).
>>
I'm using vmware 5 esxi servers on a pretty beefy system.  8 2.8ghz xeon 
cores, 32gb memory and I'm only running a single VM at a time.  Each VM 
is allocated 4GB of memory and 2 cores.  Should be more than enough to 
handle serving up a 450MB iso file.
>> Have you tried bare hardware?
>
No, unfortunately I don't have access to bare hardware, but as I 
mentioned, the vmware 5 esxi servers are pretty beefy.
>
> How much control do you have over the VM server?  Seems to me that 
> resources/performance could be not only affected by other VMs but also 
> intentionally throttled.
>
I have pretty much full control over the VM servers.  There is no 
throttling going on, no resource limits and as I said, I shut down all 
the other VMs just to rule out contention with them.
>> Some tips for this kind of testing:
>>
>> 1. Don't run ab on localhost: all the numbers will be worthless
>> 2. Run ab with a range of concurrencies, including c=1
>> 3. Make /lots/ of requests. IMO, 5 requests is really a pinhole
>> analysis. I would make as many requests as you can over 10 minutes and
>> see what the throughput ends up being.
>>
I actually ran localhost just out of curiosity and while the numbers are 
faster, the performance difference is consistent with a remote host.  I 
don't want to make alot of requests.  I want to see throughput of large 
files becuase this is where we're seeing the slow downs.  Concurrency is 
not an issue.
>>> I'll compare Windows XP performance and Windows 2008 performance
>>> and after that I'll do the same on a Linux VM to get a better
>>> comparison.
>> It will be good to see.
>>
I decided to just do windows.  The numbers I got are enough for me to 
not care at this point.
>>> I plan on doing both local ab requests as well as remote.  The
>>> problem with remote is that our network is busy, so it may account
>>> for some variations but I don't think I can get our IT to segment
>>> me anything for this purpose :(.
>> Just get a crossover cable and use static IP addresses.
Unfortunately no access to additional hardware.
>>
>>> I'm not so concerned about a 25% hit.  I'm really more concerned
>>> with the drop to 4-5MB/s over time that seems to happen.
>> Does this happen locally or only remotely? I wonder if you're hitting
>> some kind of traffic-shaping or QOS rules on your own internal network.
>
This type of hit occurs for our customers both locally and remotely.


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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by "Terence M. Bandoian" <te...@tmbsw.com>.
  On 1:59 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Andy,
>
> On 5/8/12 6:41 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
>> Initial benchmarks seem to show that the behavior between tomcats
>> is not an issue.
> Do you mean that Tomcat performance appears to be the same regardless
> of version? That's both good and bad... I thought there were some
> performance improvements to the connectors from 5.5->  6.0. Maybe that
> was 4.x->5.5.
>
>> Tomcat7 is using JDK 1.7 and this is interesting.  The benchmarks
>> with tomcat7+jdk1.7 vary widely across the board (both through ajp
>> and direct http to tomcat) from 30s-40sMB/s. Java 1.6 seems alot
>> more consistent.  Not sure why yet.
> That is interesting. On the other hand, the server /is/ on a virtual
> machine, and you never know what other processes are stealing focus.
> Many VMs are notorious for bad IO throughput (I'm looking at you, OpenVZ).
>
>> I've also moved off the crappy Windows XP VM I was provided to a
>> more recent Windows 2008 VM as well as a fresh Windows XP SP3 VM.
>> In past experience it seems windows XP and windows 2003 were the
>> worst of the bunch with the ajp downloads dropping as low as
>> 4-5MB/s over time.
> Have you tried bare hardware?


How much control do you have over the VM server?  Seems to me that 
resources/performance could be not only affected by other VMs but also 
intentionally throttled.

-Terence Bandoian


>> I'm going to run a barrage of tests and provide the numbers.  Do
>> you think ab -n 5 and allowing ab to average the values of 5 hits
>> for the ~440MB iso is a sound average?
> Some tips for this kind of testing:
>
> 1. Don't run ab on localhost: all the numbers will be worthless
> 2. Run ab with a range of concurrencies, including c=1
> 3. Make /lots/ of requests. IMO, 5 requests is really a pinhole
> analysis. I would make as many requests as you can over 10 minutes and
> see what the throughput ends up being.
>
>> I'll compare Windows XP performance and Windows 2008 performance
>> and after that I'll do the same on a Linux VM to get a better
>> comparison.
> It will be good to see.
>
> If you want some really crappy scripts to get you going, feel free to
> start with mine from a while back (look in the "scripts" subdir):
> http://people.apache.org/~schultz/ApacheCon%20NA%202010/
>
> Those scripts can run a ... lot of ab tests with lots of different
> concurrencies against a series of URLs -- that allows you to set up
> everything with, say, a different path or port number to get the
> various setups (bare httpd, httpd+mod_jk, httpd+mod_proxy, etc.) and
> then let it run all night. It will also produce some tables for you
> that can then easily be graphed.
>
>> I also did bump up the ajpPacket size to 64K with no noticeable
>> change to the benchmark numbers.  So while 8k seems crappy it
>> doesn't seem to be an issue.  Given that apache and tomcat are both
>> local I wouldn't expect that to be a big problem with 8k chunks
>> given the near non-existent latency of local connections.
> It's good to know that the packet size didn't affect performance, but
> I agree that localhost communication is always magically-fast no mater
> what.
>
>> I plan on doing both local ab requests as well as remote.  The
>> problem with remote is that our network is busy, so it may account
>> for some variations but I don't think I can get our IT to segment
>> me anything for this purpose :(.
> Just get a crossover cable and use static IP addresses.
>
>> I'm not so concerned about a 25% hit.  I'm really more concerned
>> with the drop to 4-5MB/s over time that seems to happen.
> Does this happen locally or only remotely? I wonder if you're hitting
> some kind of traffic-shaping or QOS rules on your own internal network.
>
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Andy,

On 5/8/12 6:41 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
> Initial benchmarks seem to show that the behavior between tomcats
> is not an issue.

Do you mean that Tomcat performance appears to be the same regardless
of version? That's both good and bad... I thought there were some
performance improvements to the connectors from 5.5-> 6.0. Maybe that
was 4.x->5.5.

> Tomcat7 is using JDK 1.7 and this is interesting.  The benchmarks
> with tomcat7+jdk1.7 vary widely across the board (both through ajp
> and direct http to tomcat) from 30s-40sMB/s. Java 1.6 seems alot
> more consistent.  Not sure why yet.

That is interesting. On the other hand, the server /is/ on a virtual
machine, and you never know what other processes are stealing focus.
Many VMs are notorious for bad IO throughput (I'm looking at you, OpenVZ).

> I've also moved off the crappy Windows XP VM I was provided to a
> more recent Windows 2008 VM as well as a fresh Windows XP SP3 VM.
> In past experience it seems windows XP and windows 2003 were the
> worst of the bunch with the ajp downloads dropping as low as
> 4-5MB/s over time.

Have you tried bare hardware?

> I'm going to run a barrage of tests and provide the numbers.  Do
> you think ab -n 5 and allowing ab to average the values of 5 hits
> for the ~440MB iso is a sound average?

Some tips for this kind of testing:

1. Don't run ab on localhost: all the numbers will be worthless
2. Run ab with a range of concurrencies, including c=1
3. Make /lots/ of requests. IMO, 5 requests is really a pinhole
analysis. I would make as many requests as you can over 10 minutes and
see what the throughput ends up being.

> I'll compare Windows XP performance and Windows 2008 performance
> and after that I'll do the same on a Linux VM to get a better
> comparison.

It will be good to see.

If you want some really crappy scripts to get you going, feel free to
start with mine from a while back (look in the "scripts" subdir):
http://people.apache.org/~schultz/ApacheCon%20NA%202010/

Those scripts can run a ... lot of ab tests with lots of different
concurrencies against a series of URLs -- that allows you to set up
everything with, say, a different path or port number to get the
various setups (bare httpd, httpd+mod_jk, httpd+mod_proxy, etc.) and
then let it run all night. It will also produce some tables for you
that can then easily be graphed.

> I also did bump up the ajpPacket size to 64K with no noticeable
> change to the benchmark numbers.  So while 8k seems crappy it
> doesn't seem to be an issue.  Given that apache and tomcat are both
> local I wouldn't expect that to be a big problem with 8k chunks
> given the near non-existent latency of local connections.

It's good to know that the packet size didn't affect performance, but
I agree that localhost communication is always magically-fast no mater
what.

> I plan on doing both local ab requests as well as remote.  The
> problem with remote is that our network is busy, so it may account
> for some variations but I don't think I can get our IT to segment
> me anything for this purpose :(.

Just get a crossover cable and use static IP addresses.

> I'm not so concerned about a 25% hit.  I'm really more concerned
> with the drop to 4-5MB/s over time that seems to happen.

Does this happen locally or only remotely? I wonder if you're hitting
some kind of traffic-shaping or QOS rules on your own internal network.

- -chris
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
> He did that previously, and the result seemed to be that Tomcat alone 
> was comparable to httpd alone, and both were better than httpd/mod_jk 
> + Tomcat; which is indeed physically to be expected : more tubing, 
> less throughput (excepting quantum tunelling effects of course).
> The question is more : how much of a degradation ?
> 15.0/19.3 = 0.77 = 23% less throughput.  I don't know if this is "a 
> good chunk" or the "to be expected" kind of degradation.
>
> According to the (looking seriously outdated) AJP protocol 
> documentation at 
> http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html, it would 
> seem that the maximum data size "chunk" which AJP can send back from 
> Tomcat to the front-end httpd is 8K at a time.  So AJP might not be 
> very well suited, when it comes to send back big blobs of data.
>
> Rainer would need to confirm if that is still the case now.
>
> One earlier message seemed to indicate that this "httpd/mod_jk+tomcat 
> deficit" only happened under Windows though, and not under Linux.  If 
> that is confirmed, maybe there is some subtle difference in how the 
> TCP/IP stack is being used under the one vs the other ?
Thanks for that summary,
That's about what I'm seeing.  I just created a directory containing 
Apache configured to serve up the iso file directly as well as through 
three tomcats (tomcat5.5, tomcat6, and tomcat7) to see if the behavior 
is related to tomcat that I can easily copy between different Windows 
systems.  Initial benchmarks seem to show that the behavior between 
tomcats is not an issue.    Tomcat7 is using JDK 1.7 and this is 
interesting.  The benchmarks with tomcat7+jdk1.7 vary widely across the 
board (both through ajp and direct http to tomcat) from 30s-40sMB/s.  
Java 1.6 seems alot more consistent.  Not sure why yet.

I've also moved off the crappy Windows XP VM I was provided to a more 
recent Windows 2008 VM as well as a fresh Windows XP SP3 VM.  In past 
experience it seems windows XP and windows 2003 were the worst of the 
bunch with the ajp downloads dropping as low as 4-5MB/s over time.

I'm going to run a barrage of tests and provide the numbers.  Do you 
think ab -n 5 and allowing ab to average the values of 5 hits for the 
~440MB iso is a sound average?

I'll compare Windows XP performance and Windows 2008 performance and 
after that I'll do the same on a Linux VM to get a better comparison.

I also did bump up the ajpPacket size to 64K with no noticeable change 
to the benchmark numbers.  So while 8k seems crappy it doesn't seem to 
be an issue.  Given that apache and tomcat are both local I wouldn't 
expect that to be a big problem with 8k chunks given the near 
non-existent latency of local connections.

I plan on doing both local ab requests as well as remote.  The problem 
with remote is that our network is busy, so it may account for some 
variations but I don't think I can get our IT to segment me anything for 
this purpose :(.

I'm not so concerned about a 25% hit.  I'm really more concerned with 
the drop to 4-5MB/s over time that seems to happen.

Thanks,
Andy

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Andy Wang [mailto:awang@ptc.com] 
>> Subject: Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP
> 
>> Downloading a large file through mod_jk to tomcat looks like this:
>> 2012-05-08 16:01:22 (15.0 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.8" saved 
>> [450799616/450799616]
> 
>> Downloading the same large file directly through apache looks like:
>> 2012-05-08 16:01:58 (19.3 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.11" saved 
>> [450799616/450799616]
> 
>> So apache still beats tomcat by a good chunk
> 
> No, httpd (not Apache, which is an open source software organization) beats httpd+Tomcat - any other result would be violating several laws of physics.  Might be interesting to measure just Tomcat in your environment.
> 

He did that previously, and the result seemed to be that Tomcat alone was comparable to 
httpd alone, and both were better than httpd/mod_jk + Tomcat; which is indeed physically 
to be expected : more tubing, less throughput (excepting quantum tunelling effects of 
course).
The question is more : how much of a degradation ?
15.0/19.3 = 0.77 = 23% less throughput.  I don't know if this is "a good chunk" or the "to 
be expected" kind of degradation.

According to the (looking seriously outdated) AJP protocol documentation at 
http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html, it would seem that the maximum 
data size "chunk" which AJP can send back from Tomcat to the front-end httpd is 8K at a 
time.  So AJP might not be very well suited, when it comes to send back big blobs of data.

Rainer would need to confirm if that is still the case now.

One earlier message seemed to indicate that this "httpd/mod_jk+tomcat deficit" only 
happened under Windows though, and not under Linux.  If that is confirmed, maybe there is 
some subtle difference in how the TCP/IP stack is being used under the one vs the other ?


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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Pid <pi...@pidster.com>.
On 08/05/2012 22:13, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Andy Wang [mailto:awang@ptc.com] 
>> Subject: Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP
> 
>> Downloading a large file through mod_jk to tomcat looks like this:
>> 2012-05-08 16:01:22 (15.0 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.8" saved 
>> [450799616/450799616]
> 
>> Downloading the same large file directly through apache looks like:
>> 2012-05-08 16:01:58 (19.3 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.11" saved 
>> [450799616/450799616]
> 
>> So apache still beats tomcat by a good chunk
> 
> No, httpd (not Apache, which is an open source software organization) beats httpd+Tomcat - any other result would be violating several laws of physics.  Might be interesting to measure just Tomcat in your environment.

But preferably a supported non-ancient version of Tomcat.


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RE: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by "Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>.
> From: Andy Wang [mailto:awang@ptc.com] 
> Subject: Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

> Downloading a large file through mod_jk to tomcat looks like this:
> 2012-05-08 16:01:22 (15.0 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.8" saved 
> [450799616/450799616]

> Downloading the same large file directly through apache looks like:
> 2012-05-08 16:01:58 (19.3 MB/s) - "sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.11" saved 
> [450799616/450799616]

> So apache still beats tomcat by a good chunk

No, httpd (not Apache, which is an open source software organization) beats httpd+Tomcat - any other result would be violating several laws of physics.  Might be interesting to measure just Tomcat in your environment.

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
After playing with this a bit more (testing this time against tomcat 7.0.27)
the ajpPacketSize has zero effect on the speed.

Downloading a large file through mod_jk to tomcat looks like this:
2012-05-08 16:01:22 (15.0 MB/s) - “sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.8” saved 
[450799616/450799616]

Downloading the same large file directly through apache looks like:
2012-05-08 16:01:58 (19.3 MB/s) - “sol-11-1111-text-x86.iso.11” saved 
[450799616/450799616]


the numbers are pretty consistent. So apache still beats tomcat by a 
good chunk but it's much much better than with tomcat 5.0 where the 
through tomcat numbers were about half that.

I'm still wondering if there's something that can be tweaked in the MS 
TCP/IP stack to bring the two together closer.

Andy

On 05/08/2012 02:06 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 06:50 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
>> On 05/07/2012 06:06 PM, André Warnier wrote:
>>>
>>> Considering your setup, it should not be too hard to set up a 
>>> download of the same file file directly from Tomcat (through its 
>>> HTTP Connector), to compare that with your two previous ways. This 
>>> way, you could make sure if it is Tomcat, or the mod_jk/AJP link 
>>> which is the issue.
>>>
>>> Also, still considering your setup, it should be possible to 
>>> configure things so that these file downloads are handled directly 
>>> by Apache httpd, since that seems to satisfy your expectations. 
>>> mod_jk "JkMount/JkUnMount" rules (*) should make that possible, no ?
>>> Have to be a bit careful not to introduce security holes, and I am 
>>> assuming that the files are static (which may be wrong here).
>>>
>>> (*) or the <Location ..> + "setHandler jakarta-servlet" 
>>> configuration variation
>>>
>> Thanks for the http connector idea. I forgot about that. The primary 
>> reason why i'm using tomcat to download a static file is really for 
>> testing purposes to confirm performance between mod_jk and direct 
>> apache. we have servlets that stream content files that see the same 
>> massive performance hit so in our actual use case it's not static 
>> files :(. I'm thinking this would be a valid test to help at least 
>> tweak mod_jk to it's potential.
>>
>> We've checked and double checked the buffering code of the servlets 
>> and it all looks fine AND the performance is fine on Linux and the 
>> speed characteristics are identical to serving static files through 
>> tomcat + mod_jk so I'm hoping that it's an apples to apples comparison.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
> Through the HTTP connector the performance is similar to apache 
> direct. 30mb/s
>
> So there's something interesting going on specifically ajp.
>
> Andy
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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
On 05/07/2012 06:50 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 06:06 PM, André Warnier wrote:
>>
>> Considering your setup, it should not be too hard to set up a 
>> download of the same file file directly from Tomcat (through its HTTP 
>> Connector), to compare that with your two previous ways.  This way, 
>> you could make sure if it is Tomcat, or the mod_jk/AJP link which is 
>> the issue.
>>
>> Also, still considering your setup, it should be possible to 
>> configure things so that these file downloads are handled directly by 
>> Apache httpd, since that seems to satisfy your expectations.  mod_jk 
>> "JkMount/JkUnMount" rules (*) should make that possible, no ?
>> Have to be a bit careful not to introduce security holes, and I am 
>> assuming that the files are static (which may be wrong here).
>>
>> (*) or the <Location ..> + "setHandler jakarta-servlet" configuration 
>> variation
>>
> Thanks for the http connector idea.  I forgot about that.  The primary 
> reason why i'm using tomcat to download a static file is really for 
> testing purposes to confirm performance between mod_jk and direct 
> apache.  we have servlets that stream content files that see the same 
> massive performance hit so in our actual use case it's not static 
> files :(.  I'm thinking this would be a valid test to help at least 
> tweak mod_jk to it's potential.
>
> We've checked and double checked the buffering code of the servlets 
> and it all looks fine AND the performance is fine on Linux and the 
> speed characteristics are identical to serving static files through 
> tomcat + mod_jk so I'm hoping that it's an apples to apples comparison.
>
> Andy
>

Through the HTTP connector the performance is similar to apache direct.  
30mb/s

So there's something interesting going on specifically ajp.

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
On 05/07/2012 06:06 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> Andy Wang wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> We've had a number of cases of people reporting to us that file 
>> downloads are slow when passed through tomcat and I've not been able 
>> to reproduce the problem on Linux but finally was provided a windows 
>> XP VM that was able to reproduce the problem.
>>
>> This is Apache 2.2.22 and mod_jk 1.2.32 with tomcat 5.0.30 (yeah, I 
>> know this is ancient.  I'll try with something newer tomorrow).
>>
>> I have two URLs configured both with an identical iso file (roughly 
>> 450MB) in size.
>> When I go through the URL configured to run directly through Apache 
>> the download speeds on the file are around 30MB/s which is reasonable 
>> for what I would expect on the network connection between the client 
>> and the web server.
>>
>> The second URL is JkMount'ed through to tomcat and download the same 
>> file drops down to 5-6 MB/s (starts at 10-ish MB/s).
>>
>> The one thing I haven't tried configuring is upping the ajp packet 
>> size because the version of tomcat I was provided doesn't support 
>> that, but otherwise the operating system is tuned so the 
>> TcpWindowSize is 131072.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is windows, and both apache and tomcat are local 
>> on the server so I can't sniff the packets between the two systems 
>> with wireshark.
>>
>> I don't see anything on the mod_jk workers.properties configuration 
>> that deals with buffer sizes.
>>
>> Hoping someone has some ideas on what to look at that might help 
>> tweak this thing to perform similarly to Apache direct downloads.
>>
>
> Considering your setup, it should not be too hard to set up a download 
> of the same file file directly from Tomcat (through its HTTP 
> Connector), to compare that with your two previous ways.  This way, 
> you could make sure if it is Tomcat, or the mod_jk/AJP link which is 
> the issue.
>
> Also, still considering your setup, it should be possible to configure 
> things so that these file downloads are handled directly by Apache 
> httpd, since that seems to satisfy your expectations.  mod_jk 
> "JkMount/JkUnMount" rules (*) should make that possible, no ?
> Have to be a bit careful not to introduce security holes, and I am 
> assuming that the files are static (which may be wrong here).
>
> (*) or the <Location ..> + "setHandler jakarta-servlet" configuration 
> variation
>
Thanks for the http connector idea.  I forgot about that.  The primary 
reason why i'm using tomcat to download a static file is really for 
testing purposes to confirm performance between mod_jk and direct 
apache.  we have servlets that stream content files that see the same 
massive performance hit so in our actual use case it's not static files 
:(.  I'm thinking this would be a valid test to help at least tweak 
mod_jk to it's potential.

We've checked and double checked the buffering code of the servlets and 
it all looks fine AND the performance is fine on Linux and the speed 
characteristics are identical to serving static files through tomcat + 
mod_jk so I'm hoping that it's an apples to apples comparison.

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Andy Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
> We've had a number of cases of people reporting to us that file 
> downloads are slow when passed through tomcat and I've not been able to 
> reproduce the problem on Linux but finally was provided a windows XP VM 
> that was able to reproduce the problem.
> 
> This is Apache 2.2.22 and mod_jk 1.2.32 with tomcat 5.0.30 (yeah, I know 
> this is ancient.  I'll try with something newer tomorrow).
> 
> I have two URLs configured both with an identical iso file (roughly 
> 450MB) in size.
> When I go through the URL configured to run directly through Apache the 
> download speeds on the file are around 30MB/s which is reasonable for 
> what I would expect on the network connection between the client and the 
> web server.
> 
> The second URL is JkMount'ed through to tomcat and download the same 
> file drops down to 5-6 MB/s (starts at 10-ish MB/s).
> 
> The one thing I haven't tried configuring is upping the ajp packet size 
> because the version of tomcat I was provided doesn't support that, but 
> otherwise the operating system is tuned so the TcpWindowSize is 131072.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is windows, and both apache and tomcat are local on 
> the server so I can't sniff the packets between the two systems with 
> wireshark.
> 
> I don't see anything on the mod_jk workers.properties configuration that 
> deals with buffer sizes.
> 
> Hoping someone has some ideas on what to look at that might help tweak 
> this thing to perform similarly to Apache direct downloads.
> 

Considering your setup, it should not be too hard to set up a download of the same file 
file directly from Tomcat (through its HTTP Connector), to compare that with your two 
previous ways.  This way, you could make sure if it is Tomcat, or the mod_jk/AJP link 
which is the issue.

Also, still considering your setup, it should be possible to configure things so that 
these file downloads are handled directly by Apache httpd, since that seems to satisfy 
your expectations.  mod_jk "JkMount/JkUnMount" rules (*) should make that possible, no ?
Have to be a bit careful not to introduce security holes, and I am assuming that the files 
are static (which may be wrong here).

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Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Andy Wang <aw...@ptc.com>.
> Which connector are you using? If you have APR available, AJP should use
> the APR connector by default. Do you know if you are using APR/native?
> If not, consider trying it, and use sendFile="true". I'm not sure if it
> will improve anything because the real problem might be the actual
> buffering between Tomcat and httpd.
Unfortunately, we found some odd problems with APR/native a long time 
ago and haven't ever gone back to it.  I don't have it available for the 
systems I need this working on to try
> Wireshark should allow you to sniff traffic on localhost.
>
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Loopback
It doesn't work on Windows.  I've tried the loopback adapter piece, but 
it's quite obnoxious.
What am I saying, Windows is quite obnoxious :)

Andy

Re: Slow downloads through mod_jk on Windows XP

Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Andy,

On 5/7/12 6:38 PM, Andy Wang wrote:
> This is Apache 2.2.22 and mod_jk 1.2.32 with tomcat 5.0.30 (yeah,
> I know this is ancient.  I'll try with something newer tomorrow).

Which connector are you using? If you have APR available, AJP should use
the APR connector by default. Do you know if you are using APR/native?
If not, consider trying it, and use sendFile="true". I'm not sure if it
will improve anything because the real problem might be the actual
buffering between Tomcat and httpd.

> Unfortunately, this is windows, and both apache and tomcat are
> local on the server so I can't sniff the packets between the two
> systems with wireshark.

Wireshark should allow you to sniff traffic on localhost.

- -chris
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