[Spread-users] More Performance Issues/Questions

Ryan Caudy rcaudy at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 22:25:21 EST 2004


The issue of whether the hurry messages work correctly has come up
before, as cited in Yair's e-mail linked below, and a quote from one
of my own e-mails.  I'll try to see if I can find a problem, when I
have time next week.

Cheers,
Ryan

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:23:08 -0500, Yair Amir <yairamir at cnds.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> In my opinion, there are no side effects of tokens, leaders or anything
> like what you are describing, in the Spread protocols. Your previous e-mails
> describing how the protocol works do not reflect the algorithms
> or their implementation.
> 
> In my opinion the only issue with your latency is your network loosing
> packets, especially on one machine. The token is lost with some probability
> for this machine (as any other udp message), and thanks to the Spread protocol,
> you do not feel this beyond a token_hurry latency for some of the messages
> as Spread is recovering from that as part of its basic protocol.
> When you reduce the latency for hurry_timeout, you just make Spread more
> aggressive and this compensates for your network problem.
> 
> You could check your network udp losses directly using spsend and sprecv
> that are provided in the Spread package.
> 
> If you want to use Spread and are not happy with the latency then either
> fix your network, or make Spread more aggressive by lowering the hurry_timeout.
> I really don't know how to help you beyond this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         :) Yair.
> 
> Mike Perik wrote:
> > Shouldn't the leader give up the token before going into the select?
> >
> > What's the purpose of the leader?
> >
> > Is this a bug or just a side effect of the implementation?
> >
> > Seems to me that this should be documented especially for situations where you
> > have 1 talker and many listeners.  The leader needs to the be talker.
> > Couldn't there be some kind of agreement made in the ring that whoever is
> > talking a lot becomes the leader?  Or the leader could determine that someone
> > else out there is doing the talking and I'm not so I'll give up the token a
> > little quicker.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27 pm, Mike Perik wrote:
> >
> >>Ok,  I think I've found the problem.
> >>
> >>In the spread.conf I had two machines.  The leader is always the first
> >>machine.  The leader is the one who holds onto the token and he'll hold
> >>onto the token for the Hurry_timeout.   Since the first machine in the
> >>configuration file is the client machine he holds onto it for Hurry_timeout
> >>seconds.  It goes into a select with the Hurry_timeout and since the
> >>server/publisher is waiting for the token to publish the client waits the
> >>whole time (Hurry_timeout or 2 seconds by default) since there is nothing
> >>to read.  I'm assuming the server queues  up all the messages that are
> >>being sent and when it gets the token it sends them all.
> >>
> >>I switched the order of the two machines in the configuration file around
> >>and the problem essentially went away.
> >>
> >>If I'm correct on how this is working, I have a couple of questions?
> >>
> >>What if I have two servers that are publishing data at a high rate and
> >>neither of them are the "leader"?
> >>What kind of delay is this going to cause?
> >>If I have 20-30 spread daemons in my segment how much additional latency is
> >>there going to be?
> >>
> >>I believe this is why the spmonitor shows the "last" which was the server
> >>having a high number of retransmits.
> >>
> >>Is this a known issue?
> >>
> >>How would I best design my system around this problem?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mike
> >>
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