Re: [wildfly-dev] Pooling EJB Session Beans per default

On 08/06/2014 03:47 PM, Andrig Miller wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "Andrig Miller" <anmiller(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org, "Jason Greene" <jason.greene(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 4:36:11 PM >> Subject: Re: [wildfly-dev] Pooling EJB Session Beans per default >> >> >> >> On 8/5/2014 3:54 PM, Andrig Miller wrote: >>>> Its a horrible theory. :) How many EJB instances of a give type >>>> are >>>> created per request? Generally only 1. 1 instance of one object >>>> of >>>> one >>>> type! My $5 bet is that if you went into EJB code and started >>>> counting >>>> how many object allocations were made per request, you'd lose >>>> count >>>> very >>>> quickly. Better yet, run a single remote EJB request through a >>>> perf >>>> tool and let it count the number of allocations for you. It will >>>> be >>>> greater than 1. :) >>>> >>>> Maybe the StrictMaxPool has an effect on performance because it >>>> creates >>>> a global synchronization bottleneck. Throughput is less and you >>>> end >>>> up >>>> having less concurrent per-request objects being allocated and >>>> GC'd. >>>> >>> The number per request, while relevant is only part of the story. >>> The number of concurrent requests happening in the server >>> dictates the object allocation rate. Given enough concurrency, >>> even a very small number of object allocations per request can >>> create an object allocation rate that can no longer be sustained. >>> >> I'm saying that the number of concurrent requests might not dictate >> object allocation rate. There are probably a number of allocations >> that >> happen after the EJB instance is obtained. i.e. interception chains, >> contexts, etc. If StrictMaxPool blocks until a new instance is >> available, then there would be less allocations per request as >> blocking >> threads would be serialized. >> >> Whoever is investigating StrictMaxPool, or EJB pooling in general >> should >> stop. Its pointless. >> > Ah, no its not pointless. We have a new non-blocking implementation of StrictMaxPool, and its upstream in Wildfly 9, and will be in EAP 6.4. It has helped us increase our throughput, and reduce response times alot! > > Andy Some contextual numbers around what Andy is describing. These are results from one of our benchmarks; Average response times (28600 concurrent users) Pooled Non-pooled Remote EJB invocations 0.114s 2.094s WS invocations 0.105s 0.332s HTTP web app invocations HttpCallTypeA 0.090s 5.589s HttpCallTypeB 0.042s 2.510s HttpCallTypeC 0.116s 7.267S The only difference between these two sets of numbers is EJB pooling.