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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-10130

Serious performance degradation in Solr 6.4.1 due to the new metrics collection

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Blocker
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 6.4, 6.4.1
    • 6.4.2, 7.0
    • metrics
    • Centos 7, OpenJDK 1.8.0 update 111

    Description

      We've stumbled on serious performance issues after upgrading to Solr 6.4.1. Looks like the new metrics collection system in MetricsDirectoryFactory is causing a major slowdown. This happens with an index configuration that, as far as I can see, has no metrics specific configuration and uses luceneMatchVersion 5.5.0. In practice a moderate load will completely bog down the server with Solr threads constantly using up all CPU (600% on 6 core machine) capacity with a load that normally where we normally see an average load of < 50%.

      I took stack traces (I'll attach them) and noticed that the threads are spending time in com.codahale.metrics.Meter.mark. I tested building Solr 6.4.1 with the metrics collection disabled in MetricsDirectoryFactory getByte and getBytes methods and was unable to reproduce the issue.

      As far as I can see there are several issues:
      1. Collecting metrics on every single byte read is slow.
      2. Having it enabled by default is not a good idea.
      3. The comment "enable coarse-grained metrics by default" at https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/branch_6x/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/SolrIndexConfig.java#L104 implies that only coarse-grained metrics should be enabled by default, and this contradicts with collecting metrics on every single byte read.

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        1. SOLR-10130.patch
          24 kB
          Andrzej Bialecki
        2. SOLR-10130.patch
          23 kB
          Andrzej Bialecki
        3. solr-8983-console-f1.log
          234 kB
          Ere Maijala

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