[erlang-questions] Cowboy vs Misultin

Loïc Hoguin essen@REDACTED
Wed Jun 22 16:11:47 CEST 2011


Sorry for the double post, but in your attached misultin patch:

+	erlang:ibernate(?MODULE, ws_loop, [ServerRef, Socket, L,
WsHandleLoopPid, SocketMode, WsAutoExit]).

you meant erlang:hibernate, right?

On 06/22/2011 03:14 PM, Andy W. Song wrote:
> OK, the competition comes again. I finally wrote a client that performs
> decently. It's here <https://github.com/awsong/Golang-WebSocket-Client>.
> 
> I tested my previous Cowboy first( I changed send_interval from 1000 to
> 900000 of line 64 of src/websocket_handler.erl in cowboy_examples ).
> Here is the version:
> *Cowboy_examples*: 343d002 Initial commit with a default and websocket
> handler.
> *Cowboy*: 5d69825 Add a max_connections transport option, Mon May 9
> 22:01:31 2011
> 
> The command line I use on the client is "./conn -c 10000 -n 10". It'll
> create 100K connections, 10K per IP to the server. It takes about 7 and
> half minutes to finish creating these connections. During the creation,
> server CPU usage is about 110%(dual core), client cpu usage is under 20%. 
> 
> Server memory usage(Cowboy residence memory) :
> Right after Cowboy starts: 525M
> After 100K connection established: 1842M
> After 5M packets passed: 2824M
> After 9M packets passed: 3231M
> After 87.7 M packets passed, 5746M
> [{total,4155518040 <tel:4155518040>},
>  {processes,1701318856},
>  {processes_used,1701299096},
>  {system,2454199184},
>  {atom,497457},
>  {atom_used,482279},
>  {binary,1787851232},
>  {code,4041219},
>  {ets,41231176}]
> There seems a memory leak. If I don't stop, the memory usage will keep
> going higher. 40% CPU, 1.5 MB/s traffic. 
> 
> *Latest Cowboy and Cowboy_examples* (same send_interval change). It
> takes about 7 and half minutes to finish creating 100K connections.
> During the creation, server CPU usage is about 110%(dual core), client
> cpu usage is under 20%. After 158.9M packets passed, 1464M residence
> memory used, 30% CPU, 1.5 MB/s traffic, .
> 
> *Latest Misultin* from github, with patch (see attachment):
> It takes about 45s to finish creating 100K connections, during creation
> cpu usage is 120%. After creation, residence memory usage is 2684M. And
> it goes down slowly to 1416M after 40M packets are passed, cpu usage is
> about 50%
> 
> Another thing worth to note is that when I hit CTRL-C on the client
> side, misultin will quickly destroy the connections and release memory
> and go back to normal. But Cowboy will consume almost all the cpu time
> and stay there for a long time (I didn't have the patience to measure
> how long, so just hit ctrl-c to quick erlang).
> 
> Cheers
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Andy W. Song <wsongcn@REDACTED
> <mailto:wsongcn@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>     BTW, the latest version uses less memory too, about 3.2G for 200K
>     connections.
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Andy W. Song <wsongcn@REDACTED
>     <mailto:wsongcn@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>         Missed one attachment.
> 
> 
>         On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Andy W. Song <wsongcn@REDACTED
>         <mailto:wsongcn@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
>             I tested out the latest Misultin with this change, CPU usage
>             is about 2 to 3 percent lower. 
> 
>             With the attached Misultin package, I can still reproduce
>             the large packet problem. 
> 
>             With latest version, Misultin doesn't report any error. But
>             it doesn't reply to the client either. Seems it just drops
>             the packet. Another attached file is the tcpdump result. 
> 
>             I will try Mochiweb later just to compare.
> 
> 
>             On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Roberto Ostinelli
>             <roberto@REDACTED <mailto:roberto@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
> 
>                 On May 31, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Andy W. Song wrote:
> 
>>                 Would you mind testing it using my C client? Search
>>                 "->len" and give
>>                 it a value between 1500 and 2000, hopefully you'll see
>>                 the result I
>>                 saw.
>>
>>                 Regards
>>                 Andy
> 
>                 Hi Andy,
> 
>                 will do that.
> 
>                 Meanwhile, I've added an undocumented option,
>                 {ws_no_header, true} so that headers are not duplicated
>                 in the record and should use less memory. plus, I've
>                 optimized binary code for websockets.
> 
>                 can you please retry the test so we have a matter of
>                 comparison?
> 
>                 the only thing you need to change is to add this option
>                 in misultin initialization, i.e.:
> 
>                 % start misultin http server
>                 start(Port) ->
>                 misultin:start_link([
>                  *{ws_no_header, true},*
>                 {port, Port}, {loop, fun(Req) -> handle_http(Req, Port)
>                 end},
>                 {ws_loop, fun(Ws) -> handle_websocket(Ws) end},
>                 {ws_autoexit, false}
>                 ]).
> 
>                 please let me know...
> 
>                 r.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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