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Re: write performance (was Re: LDIF parser performance)
Howard Chu wrote:
With synchronous writes and the original code in HEAD, 1GB BDB cache, it
took 1:33:08.74 to ldapadd the database. With the patched add.c and the
quicksort it took 1:14:52.11. As a point of reference, it took only
2:42.64 for slapadd -q.
Unfortunately the bulk of the ldapadd time is really determined by
BerkeleyDB. With DB_TXN_NOSYNC and transaction logs written to a tmpfs,
the original code in HEAD completes the ldapadd in 18:54.56. With the
add.c patch that goes down to 13:35.82. With the quicksort in
slap_mods_check that drops down further to 7:19.52.
One further refinement - omitting checkpoint calls from the main
operation, and leaving them to occur only in the checkpoint thread,
drops the time down to 6:16.55. I'd say this is the desired behavior
when you only configure a checkpoint time and not a checkpoint size, but
if you configure a size then you really need to call after each commit.
I'm not sure how realistic any of these configurations are, but I
suppose with a fast enough disk subsystem synchronous writes wouldn't
take such a heavy toll.
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-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc
OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/