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Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 52328] New: Massive garbage production observed
 when using the response writer
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:03:38 +0000
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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52328

             Bug #: 52328
           Summary: Massive garbage production observed when using the
                    response writer
           Product: Tomcat 7
           Version: 7.0.23
          Platform: PC
            Status: NEW
          Severity: regression
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: dev@tomcat.apache.org
        ReportedBy: diakula@gmail.com
    Classification: Unclassified


In our application we used to use Tomcat 5, by writing our content directly to
the response writer in our servlet:

Writer w = response.getWriter();
w.append(...)


We have regularly measured performance of our application under stress with
multiple simultaneous requests per second.

We recently upgraded to Tomcat 7, and immediately observed a performance
degradation of 10% on the request roundtrip on the same machine and the same
tests, compared to our application deployed on Tomcat 5.

Profiling with JProfiler showed that we got massive amount of transient objects
{{java.nio.HeapCharBuffer}} produced - 400Mb+ within a few minutes.

The way we are writing the response is by multiple statements of {{append}} of
small strings or single chars, which used to work properly. For experiment, we
wrapped the response writer with a {{BufferedWriter}} with a buffer of 64k.
This brought our application's performance back to normal.

We see this as either a:
- anti-pattern usage since Tomcat 6/7, in which case please provide some
documentation about that.
- bug in the C2BConverter that is applied per every call to the CoyoteWriter
write methods, which generates the garbage buffers per every call.

We know that the response stream has a 8k buffer by default. Nevertheless, this
buffer comes after the encoding step and as such it is too late to help with
the garbage. Perhaps Tomcat can buffer before it encodes?

Still, so much transient objects for just a pattern of eligible use of the
servlet API seems a bug to me.

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