On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Adam Kocoloski <kocolosk@apache.org> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Norman Barker wrote:
>
>> I have upgraded couchdb from 0.9 to the trunk and the document write
>> speed has really slowed down.
>>
>> My sequence is to call an erlang function get_docs_revs (my code) to
>> find if the document exists as follows
>>
>> get_doc_revs(Db, DocId) ->
>> case DocId of
>> undefined ->
>> Id = couch_util:new_uuid(),
>> Revs = {0, []};
>> _ ->
>> case couch_db:get_doc_info(Db, DocId) of
>> {ok, Info} ->
>> Id = Info#doc_info.id,
>> [{rev_info, {Start, Rev}, _seq, _deleted, _body_sp}|_] =
>> Info#doc_info.revs,
>> Revs = {Start, [Rev]};
>> _ ->
>> Id = DocId,
>> Revs = {0, []}
>> end
>> end,
>> {Id, Revs}.
>>
>> and then to write this doc to couch by calling write_doc_to_couch(Db,
>> #doc{id=Id, revs=Revs, body={JsonObj}}, []) where this is defined as;
>>
>> write_doc_to_couch(Db, Doc, Options) ->
>> case couch_db:update_doc(Db, Doc, Options) of
>> {ok, NewRev} ->
>> {Doc#doc.id, NewRev};
>> Error ->
>> throw({error, Error})
>> end.
>>
>> With this sequence I was writing about 500 docs in 5 seconds with 0.9,
>> now it has slowed down to 30 seconds with trunk, my JSON generating
>> code hasn't changed at all, the only thing that has had to change
>> since moving from 0.9 to trunk is the get_docs_revs above - has this
>> become a bottle neck in couchdb?
>>
>> My temporary work around is to spawn the writes, but this still
>> doesn't really solve why it is has slowed down so much. Is there a
>> 'cheaper' way of getting the current revision?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Norman
>
> Hi Norman, you might check the value for delayed_commits in the [couchdb]
> section of the .ini files. If set to false your serial write performance
> will be slower because CouchDB will fsync before returning from
> update_doc/3. If set to true CouchDB will fsync at most once per second.
> It's a tradeoff between durability and throughput. For a while
> delayed_commits was set to false on trunk. Best,
>
> Adam
>
Hi Adam,
great, that makes a big difference.
thanks,
Norman
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