[jira] [Created] (PROTON-659) if protons internal buffer gets large, performance can suffer

["Gordon Sim (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Gordon Sim created PROTON-659:
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             Summary: if protons internal buffer gets large, performance can suffer
                 Key: PROTON-659
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-659
             Project: Qpid Proton
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: proton-c
    Affects Versions: 0.7
            Reporter: Gordon Sim
            Priority: Minor


In doing some performance investigations using qpid::messaging over 1.0, in particular as message size got larger, I saw much lower throughput and lots of cpu used. From callgrind it looked like this was from shuffliing up the buffer in pn_dispatcher_output. Because of the threading in qpid::messaging, it was possible for the application to generate too much output using the top-half of the engine API before the IO was done for the bottom half. Fixing that in qpid:messaging improved performance.

There may perhaps be something that proton could do to make users more aware of this (e.g. a log message if the buffer exceeds a certain size? or just documentation?)



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