On Sep 25, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Wagner Camarao <wag...@crunchbase.com> wrote:

> What size page are you using (ie. how many results per query)?
> 
> A: 10

If I understood correctly, you're paginating through a few million results 
total. If so, I'd try setting your page size much larger: try 1000.

> 
> 
> When you said the results would sometimes take three minutes, is that per 
> page, or to paginate through all of the results?
> 
> A: I don't observe any difference by paging the first or any next page. That 
> wait time is only when I start riak and run the first request (whatever that 
> request is, paging, key lookup, or just getting a reference to a bucket).

So performance levels out after the first couple of requests? If so, this might 
be explained by the leveldb cache being built up.

> 
> 
> Are you observing CPU and memory utilization while these stalls happen?
> 
> A: Yes, I see both CPU and memory but nothing above 50% of use. If I do 
> bucket.keys (yes, not recommended) then it's the only way I get my CPU usage 
> close to 100%. I don't do that as part of my benchmarking. I did it a couple 
> times just to see it happening, and actually none of these times took riak 
> down.
> 
> 
> Do you have swap disabled?
> 
> A: Nope. Why you would recommend doing so? Could there be any downsides?

You can read about our rationale for this here [1].

[1] http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/tuning/linux/

> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Reid Draper <reiddra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 25, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Wagner Camarao <wag...@crunchbase.com> wrote:
> 
>> Reid,
>> Thanks for bringing that up and yes I'm using paginated 2i.
> 
> * What size page are you using (ie. how many results per query)?
> * When you said the results would sometimes take three minutes, is that per 
> page, or to paginate through all of the results?
> * Are you observing CPU and memory utilization while these stalls happen?
> * Do you have swap disabled?
> 
> Reid
> 
> 

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