A question. Are u consuming from the subscriptions or u intend to leave them hinging?
While paging. Do u need transactions? If u start to page not using transactions would make paging to act like partitions on Kafka. I will be waiting for more data from you before we can help some more. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:55 AM Francesco PADOVANI < francesco.padov...@bticino.it> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm using Apache Artemis as MQTT broker for our IOT projects. > > > It's a clean Artemis installation of version 1.5.1., on a server (CentOS > 7) which has 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM (4GB of Heap Space dedicated to Artemis) > and 50 GB of SSD data disk. > > > After the installation of artemis Broker we started to test it with about > 10-15 clients constantly connected, 150 subscribed topics and an average of > 2 messages per minute per client. I think these are not huge numbers, right? > > > For the few days after the installation, all was good and the broker > worked perfectly: it was fast and reliable. But day by day performances > have decreased and after about 10 days of usage it is became almost > unusable: due to resources consumption. The following > > is my "top" situation on the server: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *top - 08:59:50 up 2 days, 22:09, 1 user, load average: 2.56, 2.88, > 3.00Tasks: 92 total, 1 running, 91 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 > zombie%Cpu(s): 99.5 us, 0.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 > si, 0.0 stKiB Mem : 7747288 total, 290968 free, 4697976 used, 2758344 > buff/cacheKiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 2734768 > avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM > TIME+ COMMAND 4352 mqtt 20 0 7043380 4.348g 15192 S 200.0 58.9 > 6153:54 > java > 1 root 20 0 128096 5176 2420 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.01 > systemd* > > > > > > > > > > Now I can see the broker starting to page on disk almost always. For sure > it's a wrong configuration of ours. Currently, it seems that very old > address/queue (and the related retained messages) are always kept, making > memory and cpu consuption growing > > more and more. And even after a restart, the broker takes so much to get > up. > > Before to become reachable, it starts to make many management operations > like, for example, retrieve data from paging, etc.. But I also see the > broker that starts to register old topics and queues we don't need. How to > clean them? How to make a topic/queue > > expire? > > > > > > > > Inside my broker.xml I did set up the parameter last-value-queue=true, > thinking that this was the problem ....but it doesn't solve. Or better: > probably it's me that I've not understood the correct meaning of the > parameter. > > I did check also the clients' parameters when they connect to the broker, > to be sure they don't set, for example, clean-session = false (saying the > broker to keep all messages also when a client disconnects). But they make > it in the right way. The only > > thing is that they don't specify a client-id. They connect by using a > username/password and certificate (over tls). So, every time a client > connects, Artemis automatically provide a random client-id for it (if I > understood well). > > > Attached you can find my broker.xml configuration file: it's pretty much > the same default created during the installation procedure, but for the > acceptors (which I've customized for my MQTT purpose) and the addition of > parameter > > last-value-queue = true inside the address-setting > > section. > > > > > > > > > > Please: some of you could help me? How I have to configure my broker > instance to understand and solve these performance issues? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > > > Francesco > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > Ce message, ainsi que tous les fichiers joints à ce message, peuvent > contenir des informations sensibles et/ ou confidentielles ne devant pas > être divulguées. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce message (ou que > vous recevez ce message par erreur), nous > > vous remercions de le notifier immédiatement à son expéditeur, et de > détruire ce message. Toute copie, divulgation, modification, utilisation ou > diffusion, non autorisée, directe ou indirecte, de tout ou partie de ce > message, est strictement interdite. > > > > > > > This e-mail, and any document attached hereby, may contain confidential > and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or > have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately > and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized, > > direct or indirect, copying, disclosure, distribution or other use of the > material or parts thereof is strictly forbidden. > > > > > > > > >