[Red5devs] Root cause of CPU overload on VOD streaming (was Re: Red5 0.7 Sprint)

Dan Rossi spam at electroteque.org
Mon Jan 28 14:28:59 PST 2008


With flag set to false and 100 requests


top - 09:29:58 up 53 min,  2 users,  load average: 9.25, 5.00, 4.40
Tasks: 122 total,   1 running, 121 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 40.3%us, 30.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 28.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,   
1.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 17.3%us, 22.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 44.7%id,  0.0%wa,  8.7%hi,   
7.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1029420k total,   999888k used,    29532k free,      372k buffers
Swap:  1959888k total,        0k used,  1959888k free,   558692k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  7521 root      17   0  505m 136m  10m S  126 13.6   1:31.58 java

With flag set to true and 100 requests

90 users 100% on one core of the cpu 20% overall.

top - 09:25:42 up 49 min,  2 users,  load average: 5.74, 3.23, 3.91
Tasks: 122 total,   1 running, 121 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 17.5%us, 31.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 50.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,   
0.7%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 15.8%us, 22.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 47.2%id,  0.0%wa,  7.6%hi,   
6.6%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1029420k total,  1010608k used,    18812k free,      372k buffers
Swap:  1959888k total,        0k used,  1959888k free,   558836k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  7189 root      17   0  502m 146m  10m S  101 14.6   4:02.54 java


I don't see much of a difference :\


On 29/01/2008, at 3:02 AM, Mondain wrote:

> There no "fix" yet, but I think you may be able to set  
> generateMetadata to false in the interim. In red5-common.xml look  
> for this bean:
> <bean id="flvFileService" class="org.red5.io.flv.impl.FLVService">
>     <property name="generateMetadata" value="true"/>
> </bean>
> Simply setting it to false may prevent your CPU spikes.
>
> Paul
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 12:42 AM, Dan Rossi <spam at electroteque.org> wrote:
> Is the possible fixes committed at all ? I just tried on my little  
> ubuntu machine which is a 2.2G AMD X2 and reached 100% at 100 users  
> and was averaging at 85% the whole way through with the loader  
> tester app.
>
> On 26/01/2008, at 4:12 PM, Dan Rossi wrote:
>
>> I knew thats where it may have happened when the cache changed. The  
>> problem with this is has to identify files of same names inside  
>> different paths. I believe there was a clash there ! Please let me  
>> know how you go, some frustrated bosses on my end wanting to bite  
>> the bullet and go with FMS and 1 and a bit years nearly wasted.
>>
>> Please let me know and I can test.
>>
>> On 26/01/2008, at 8:46 AM, Chris Allen wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Let's get cranking on reverse engineering the H.264 stuff.
>>>
>>> http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2008/1/25/fms3-released
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Steven Gong wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 24, 2008 12:24 AM, Chris Allen <mrchrisallen at gmail.com>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Nice Steven! So, are you going to implement this fix?
>>>> Yes, I will provide the fix before the release.
>>>>
>>>> -Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Steven Gong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I found the root cause of big CPU load on VOD streaming. It is  
>>>>> caused by the loading of key frame metadata from metadata cache.  
>>>>> A simple solution to this is to enhance the metadata cache  
>>>>> implementation to cache the loaded metadata into memory for FLV  
>>>>> rather than load it again from the file system each time.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 22, 2008 11:58 PM, Mondain <mondain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> The load tester (src) is checked into the trunk btw..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 21, 2008 10:34 PM, Luke Hubbard <luke at codegent.net > wrote:
>>>>> Hi Steven
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes please do.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Luke
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/22/08, Steven Gong < steven.gong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Luke,
>>>>> If you need Paul's load tester for the test, I can send a copy  
>>>>> to you.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 22, 2008 7:34 AM, Dan Rossi < spam at electroteque.org> wrote:
>>>>> Paul's load tester flex app is a good one to use but i dont  
>>>>> think its accurate enough. I have tested the same app against  
>>>>> FMS and Wowza and there was only 5% cpu used maximum.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21/01/2008, at 7:43 PM, Steven Gong wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 21, 2008 4:27 PM, Luke Hubbard < luke at codegent.net> wrote:
>>>>>> I will try to test with a profiler see what is eating all that  
>>>>>> CPU.
>>>>>> This is for VOD right, not live? Or both?
>>>>>> This is the VOD streaming and can be reproduced by a simple  
>>>>>> load test VOD playback.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Luke
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/21/08, Dan Rossi < spam at electroteque.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Less than that before its reaching 100% cpu. aparantly i go  
>>>>>> away on a break and everything goes down. It might be looking  
>>>>>> like we might have to jump onto the wowza bandwagon :\
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20/01/2008, at 9:55 AM, Dominick Accattato wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dan:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> are you saying that the core can only handle 50-80 concurrent  
>>>>>>> connections?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Dan Rossi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Great, i added the preliminary task in there but didnt get  
>>>>>>>> much responses about it at first :D Should we add back in the  
>>>>>>>> option to either compile javadoc in a full distribution task  
>>>>>>>> or not, that was added in as a suggestion from steve but was  
>>>>>>>> removed. It does reduce the recompile time alot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I believe the major one that i know of is the performance  
>>>>>>>> problems somewhere in the core, its maxing out at 50-80  
>>>>>>>> concurrents.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 19/01/2008, at 3:15 AM, Mondain wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If we plan to inform users of the edge/origin features, we  
>>>>>>>>> will also need to get those parts of the build script ironed- 
>>>>>>>>> out before the release as well.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 18, 2008 4:52 AM, Lenny Sorey < lrsorey at gmail.com>  
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hey Joachim,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Welcome back!!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Glad to see your return.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hope things are well with these days.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Lenny
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 1/17/08, Dominick Accattato < daccattato at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Team:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I want to give Joachim a warm welcome back.  We missed ya!   
>>>>>>>>> Everyone has done a great job pushing Red5 forward from the  
>>>>>>>>> 0.6 release.  In preparation of the release of 0.7, I'd like  
>>>>>>>>> to get a few more fixes in.  If we can, lets try to get this  
>>>>>>>>> stuff done asap so that we can get 0.7 out the door.  Here  
>>>>>>>>> is what I find to be of importance for this release.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://jira.red5.org/browse/APPSERVER-184
>>>>>>>>> amf3 synchronization issue with SharedObjects (I will  
>>>>>>>>> provide Joachim with a test app)
>>>>>>>>> fix our tests since Paul noticed many of them are failing
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If anyone can think of any other important fixes, list them  
>>>>>>>>> so that we can look into their priority.  Thanks team!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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