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  1. Java Driver
  2. JAVA-1880

Higher memory allocation rate for write commands than write protocol

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 2.13.3, 2.14.0
    • Affects Version/s: 2.12.5, 2.13.2
    • Component/s: Performance
    • None
    • Environment:
      Driver 2.13.2
      Oracle JDK 1.8

      TL;DR
      In the 2.13.x driver, the write command paths do not leverage the Mongo client's PoolOutputBuffer pool while the write protocol codepaths do.

      Details
      The Mongo client instance maintains a _bufferPool of 1000 PoolOutputBuffer's.

      For write protocol operations
      When talking to a <=2.4 mongod, or using UNACKNOWLEDGED writes to a >=2.6 mongod, this _bufferPool is used to provide a PoolOutputBuffer for both encoding the write as well as reading the response (OutMessage).

      For write command operations
      Sending the op to the mongod (sendWriteCommandMessage()) and receiving the response (receiveWriteCommandMessage(() creating a new DefaultDBDecoder) each create in a new unpooled PoolOutputBuffer.

      The consequence is that while PoolOutputBuffer does contains a static pool of "extra" byte arrays which are used for growing, each PoolOutputBuffer instance still has a minimum 32KB allocation for the _mine and _chars buffers – a nontrivial amount per operation.

      Consider the following flight recorder sample:

      The above shows for allocations in TLAB by class, char[] and byte[] contribute to 50%+ of all allocation pressure. And for this application, 43% of the char[] allocations are from PoolOutputBuffer on the write command paths. (Not shown above, but 83% of byte[] is PoolOutputBuffer.)

      Again for this write-heavy application anyway, outside TLAB pressure shows even higher pressure:

      Here we see the byte[] and char[] combine to ~93% of all allocation pressure, and the majority of each again as PoolOutputBuffer on write command paths (83% and 93%, respectively).

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            Assignee:
            jeff.yemin@mongodb.com Jeffrey Yemin
            Reporter:
            john.morales@mongodb.com John Morales (Inactive)
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