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  1. Directory Studio
  2. DIRSTUDIO-1174

Directory Studio startup very slow due to schema LDIF processing

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0.0-M13
    • 2.0.0-M14
    • studio-connection
    • openSUSE Linux (installed on my laptop)
      Sun/Oracle Java 1.8.0_111 (previously 1.7 with same issue)
      Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0 M12 and M13, plus earlier milestones too

    Description

      For the past couple years startup of Apache Directory Studio has slowed down to the point where it takes more than a minute on my not-a-slouch laptop to start.  Other systems, VMs with new installs, start much faster, even on the same laptop, implying something other than the base product is at fault.  As a result, I had suspected maybe Directory Studio slowed down precipitously due to the number of stored connections, but never confirmed the same.

      Today I connected strace to the 'java' process as it started and noticed the following:

       

      [pid 30108] 1521902717.154740 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-ba001fb7-4b83-4dca-be44-517c14139f4b.ldif", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.154906 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.154948 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-95e1202e-9a67-418c-afe9-b02f4e7c06df.ldif", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.155019 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.155053 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-687f43f6-9d05-4d08-b159-35b0e76dc95a.ldif", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.155120 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0
      [pid 30108] 1521902717.155154 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-d62d0e10-c81e-4477-81a2-ac2c9e5c7169.ldif", O_RDONLY) = 121
      [pid 30108] 1521902718.698702 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0
      [pid 30108] 1521902718.698800 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-7b6a9a7c-2192-4b24-8874-1378e5b1b30c.ldif", O_RDONLY) = 126
      [pid 30108] 1521902719.770570 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0
      [pid 30108] 1521902719.770660 open("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core/schema-b3b02838-067f-4f24-bf92-6bf3fccdbc52.ldif", O_RDONLY) = 127
      [pid 30108] 1521902721.198417 stat("/home/ab/.ApacheDirectoryStudio/.metadata/.plugins/org.apache.directory.studio.ldapbrowser.core", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=5378, ...}) = 0

       

      Notice the timestamps (bolded near beginning of line) and how they change based on whether or not a schema LDIF file was found (bolded near end of line) and, presumably, processed.  When a file is not found, subsequent files are sought immediately without significantly delaying startup.

      These schema files are all under 1 MiB in size, but most of them are several hundred KiBs, approaching the 1 MiB size, so depending on what Directory Studio is doing as it reads and processes these files, it would seem that this introduces the slowness when a file is found.

      Looking for an existing issue I found DIRSTUDIO-1027 which may be related.  During startup of Directory Studio one of my laptop's eight cores is fully utilized, which makes me think this may be more about processing the LDIF than just swapping memory due to inefficient data structures, but I am not a memory management expert, so I only mention the possibility here in case it helps find the root cause quickly.

      My Directory Studio's total startup time: sixty-one (61) seconds.
      Time spent (per strace) reading schema files: fifty-five (55) seconds.
      Estimated non-schema startup time: six (6) seconds.

       

      Steps to duplicate:
      Have a lot, e.g. 100, of stored schema LDIF files from previous connections.
      Startup Apache Directory Studio.

      Expected results: Startup quickly.  Processing old schema LDIFs, when most of them will not be used at any given time, seems like a waste of time in general.  Perhaps this can be done only when a connection is accessed in some way rather than at startup.

      Actual results: Slow startup.

      Reproducible: I think so, but am not sure why my system has these schema LDIFs when others may not.

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        1. schema-9060594b-7c28-4123-b574-35fe09727283.ldif.bz2
          19 kB
          Aaron Burgemeister
        2. 20180821-schema-analysis-b.csv.bz2
          10 kB
          Aaron Burgemeister
        3. 20180821-schema-analysis-a.csv.bz2
          5 kB
          Aaron Burgemeister
        4. 20180416-dirstudio-1174-fix-a.patch
          3 kB
          Aaron Burgemeister
        5. 20180415-no-load-schema-ldif-by-default.patch
          1.0 kB
          Aaron Burgemeister

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