[zeromq-dev] How to properly close a socket and HWMRECV
Brian Knox
taotetek at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 16:00:11 CEST 2011
For what it's worth -
I started out going down the path you are on with push / pull. However I
ran into issues with HWM not doing quite what you think it should be doing.
You'll end up with far more tasks than your HWM in your pipeline due to
messages being buffered in other buffers before you ever hit the HWM. With
around 200 byte messages we've seen tens of thousands of messages end up in
the pipeline, even with a HWM of 1.
I experimented with two ways of handling this:
1. Use push / pull queue, but have a task sink process counting all
completed tasks and acknowledging "batches". For example, I specify only 100
tasks are allowed to be "in flight" at a time. The ventilator then sends
100 tasks, and waits for an ACK that all 100 are processed before sending
100 more.
This of course has issues if you have tasks that take different amounts of
processing time to handle. It can also get complex as you need to handle
the error case of a task getting lost (and therefore your full batch not
getting acknowledged).
2. Use a req / rep pattern, with workers requesting a new task when they
finish one. This is the model I'm currently using. This works well, even
in cases where tasks are in the millisecond range to process. In prototypes
I've easily distributed 50k to 100k tasks a second to a pool of workers
using req / rep. Since a worker signals it's done and wants another task,
work gets distributed correctly, and you will have 1 task per worker "in
flight" at a time automatically.
Brian
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Antonio Teixeira
<eagle.antonio at gmail.com>wrote:
> Yes really depends on the workload but we could also have work that only
> takes a few , seconds, or just one second.
>
>
> 2011/7/11 Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com>
>
>> On 07/11/2011 01:21 PM, Antonio Teixeira wrote:
>>
>> You are constantly exchanging traffic , this impacts the network Level ,
>>> Machine link will be occupied with both "actual work" but also with
>>> load in order to get Work.
>>>
>>
>> IIRC you said that processing a task takes 30 mins. Thus, the network
>> overhead is negligible.
>>
>> Martin
>>
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