Hi,

We (Ismael, Magnus and Jun) are also trying to reproduce and figure it
out on our side. Will keep you posted.

Gwen

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Tom Crayford <tcrayf...@heroku.com> wrote:
> I've been investigating this pretty hard since I first noticed it. Right
> now I have more avenues for investigation than I can shake a stick at, and
> am also dealing with several other things in flight/on fire. I'll respond
> when I have more information and can confirm things.
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Maybe it is mentioned and I missed. I am wondering if you see performance
>> degradation on the consumer side when TLS is used? This could help us
>> understand whether the issue is only producer related or TLS in general.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jiangjie (Becket) Qin
>>
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Tom Crayford <tcrayf...@heroku.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Ismael,
>> >
>> > Thanks. I'm writing up an issue with some new findings since yesterday
>> > right now.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi Tom,
>> > >
>> > > That's because JIRA is in lockdown due to excessive spam. I have added
>> > you
>> > > as a contributor in JIRA and you should be able to file a ticket now.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Ismael
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Tom Crayford <tcrayf...@heroku.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Ok, I don't seem to be able to file a new Jira issue at all. Can
>> > somebody
>> > > > check my permissions on Jira? My user is `tcrayford-heroku`
>> > > >
>> > > > Tom Crayford
>> > > > Heroku Kafka
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Tom,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > We don't have a CSV metrics reporter in the producer right now. The
>> > > > metrics
>> > > > > will be available in jmx. You can find out the details in
>> > > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#new_producer_monitoring
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Jun
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Tom Crayford <
>> tcrayf...@heroku.com>
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Yep, I can try those particular commits tomorrow. Before I try a
>> > > > bisect,
>> > > > > > I'm going to replicate with a less intensive to iterate on
>> smaller
>> > > > scale
>> > > > > > perf test.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Jun, inline:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > On Thursday, 12 May 2016, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Tom,
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thanks for reporting this. A few quick comments.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > 1. Did you send the right command for producer-perf? The
>> command
>> > > > limits
>> > > > > > the
>> > > > > > > throughput to 100 msgs/sec. So, not sure how a single producer
>> > can
>> > > > get
>> > > > > > 75K
>> > > > > > > msgs/sec.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Ah yep, wrong commands. I'll get the right one tomorrow. Sorry,
>> was
>> > > > > > interpolating variables into a shell script.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > 2. Could you collect some stats (e.g. average batch size) in
>> the
>> > > > > producer
>> > > > > > > and see if there is any noticeable difference between 0.9 and
>> > 0.10?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > That'd just be hooking up the CSV metrics reporter right?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > 3. Is the broker-to-broker communication also on SSL? Could you
>> > do
>> > > > > > another
>> > > > > > > test with replication factor 1 and see if you still see the
>> > > > > degradation?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Interbroker replication is always SSL in all test runs so far. I
>> > can
>> > > > try
>> > > > > > with replication factor 1 tomorrow.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Finally, email is probably not the best way to discuss
>> > performance
>> > > > > > results.
>> > > > > > > If you have more of them, could you create a jira and attach
>> your
>> > > > > > findings
>> > > > > > > there?
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Yep. I only wrote the email because JIRA was in lockdown mode
>> and I
>> > > > > > couldn't create new issues.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Jun
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Tom Crayford <
>> > > tcrayf...@heroku.com
>> > > > > > > <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > We've started running our usual suite of performance tests
>> > > against
>> > > > > > Kafka
>> > > > > > > > 0.10.0.0 RC. These tests orchestrate multiple
>> consumer/producer
>> > > > > > machines
>> > > > > > > to
>> > > > > > > > run a fairly normal mixed workload of producers and consumers
>> > > (each
>> > > > > > > > producer/consumer are just instances of kafka's inbuilt
>> > > > > > consumer/producer
>> > > > > > > > perf tests). We've found about a 33% performance drop in the
>> > > > producer
>> > > > > > if
>> > > > > > > > TLS is used (compared to 0.9.0.1)
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > We've seen notable producer performance degredations between
>> > > > 0.9.0.1
>> > > > > > and
>> > > > > > > > 0.10.0.0 RC. We're running as of the commit 9404680 right
>> now.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Our specific test case runs Kafka on 8 EC2 machines, with
>> > > enhanced
>> > > > > > > > networking. Nothing is changed between the instances, and
>> I've
>> > > > > > reproduced
>> > > > > > > > this over 4 different sets of clusters now. We're seeing
>> about
>> > a
>> > > > 33%
>> > > > > > > > performance drop between 0.9.0.1 and 0.10.0.0 as of commit
>> > > 9404680.
>> > > > > > > Please
>> > > > > > > > to note that this doesn't match up with
>> > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3565, because
>> our
>> > > > > > > performance
>> > > > > > > > tests are with compression off, and this seems to be an TLS
>> > only
>> > > > > issue.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Under 0.10.0-rc4, we see an 8 node cluster with replication
>> > > factor
>> > > > of
>> > > > > > 3,
>> > > > > > > > and 13 producers max out at around 1 million 100 byte
>> messages
>> > a
>> > > > > > second.
>> > > > > > > > Under 0.9.0.1, the same cluster does 1.5 million messages a
>> > > second.
>> > > > > > Both
>> > > > > > > > tests were with TLS on. I've reproduced this on multiple
>> > clusters
>> > > > now
>> > > > > > (5
>> > > > > > > or
>> > > > > > > > so of each version) to account for the inherent performance
>> > > > variance
>> > > > > of
>> > > > > > > > EC2. There's no notable performance difference without TLS on
>> > > these
>> > > > > > runs
>> > > > > > > -
>> > > > > > > > it appears to be an TLS regression entirely.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > A single producer with TLS under 0.10 does about 75k
>> > messages/s.
>> > > > > Under
>> > > > > > > > 0.9.0.01 it does around 120k messages/s.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > The exact producer-perf line we're using is this:
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > bin/kafka-producer-perf-test --topic "bench" --num-records
>> > > > > "500000000"
>> > > > > > > > --record-size "100" --throughput "100" --producer-props
>> > acks="-1"
>> > > > > > > > bootstrap.servers=REDACTED ssl.keystore.location=client.jks
>> > > > > > > > ssl.keystore.password=REDACTED
>> > ssl.truststore.location=server.jks
>> > > > > > > > ssl.truststore.password=REDACTED
>> > > > > > > > ssl.enabled.protocols=TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1
>> > security.protocol=SSL
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > We're using the same setup, machine type etc for each test
>> run.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > We've tried using both 0.9.0.1 producers and 0.10.0.0
>> producers
>> > > and
>> > > > > the
>> > > > > > > TLS
>> > > > > > > > performance impact was there for both.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > I've glanced over the code between 0.9.0.1 and 0.10.0.0 and
>> > > haven't
>> > > > > > seen
>> > > > > > > > anything that seemed to have this kind of impact - indeed the
>> > TLS
>> > > > > code
>> > > > > > > > doesn't seem to have changed much between 0.9.0.1 and
>> 0.10.0.0.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Any thoughts? Should I file an issue and see about
>> reproducing
>> > a
>> > > > more
>> > > > > > > > minimal test case?
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > I don't think this is related to
>> > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3565 - that is
>> for
>> > > > > > > compression
>> > > > > > > > on and plaintext, and this is for TLS only.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>

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