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Negative scaling at low thread count under WiredTiger when inserting large documents

    • Type: Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Critical - P2 Critical - P2
    • 3.0.8, 3.2.0-rc0
    • Affects Version/s: 3.0.6, 3.1.7
    • Component/s: WiredTiger
    • None
    • Fully Compatible
    • ALL

      • test inserts 100 kB documents into a single initially empty collection from multiple client threads
      • 24 cpus (12 cores * 2 hyperthreads), 64 GB memory, SSD storage
      • standalone mongod (so no oplog); no journal; checkpoints disabled to reduce variability
      • mongod restarted between each test for repeatability

      Following graph shows 5 successive runs (with mongod restart between each run) at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 client threads:

      • aggregate throughput declines as number of client threads increases
      • disk is mostly idle and becomes more so as op rate declines
      • cpu is mostly idle at all thread counts
      • eviction activity increases as client threads increase
      • yet bytes in cache also grows as thread count increases - eviction is somehow unable to keep up with the (increasingly meager) insertion rate?
      • memory allocations increase dramatically in spite of smaller insertion rate
      • threads appear to be blocked trying to acquire pages, probably accounting for lower insertion rate

      Following gdbmon profile showing two consecutive runs with 2 and 16 threads respectively:

      In the second half of the timeline, showing the run with 16 client threads,

      • A - much of the time many or most of the 16 threads are waiting (sleeping)
      • B - while one thread is evicting

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            Assignee:
            keith.bostic@mongodb.com Keith Bostic (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            bruce.lucas@mongodb.com Bruce Lucas (Inactive)
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