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<h1 class="text-primary">December, 2015</h1>
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<h2 id="2015-12-02:012a628feed6d64ae1151cbd6151ccd6">2015-12-02</h2>
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<li>Replace <code>lzop</code> with <code>xz</code> in log compression cron jobs on DSpace Test—it uses less space:</li>
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<pre><code># cd /home/dspacetest.cgiar.org/log
# ls -lh dspace.log.2015-11-18*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 2.0M Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 387K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.lzo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 169K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.xz
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<li>I had used lrzip once, but it needs more memory and is harder to use as it requires the lrztar wrapper</li>
<li>Need to remember to go check if everything is ok in a few days and then change CGSpace</li>
<li>CGSpace went down again (due to PostgreSQL idle connections of course)</li>
<li>Current database settings for DSpace are <code>db.maxconnections = 30</code> and <code>db.maxidle = 8</code>, yet idle connections are exceeding this:</li>
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<pre><code>$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep cgspace | grep -c idle
39
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<li>I restarted PostgreSQL and Tomcat and it&rsquo;s back</li>
<li>On a related note of why CGSpace is so slow, I decided to finally try the <code>pgtune</code> script to tune the postgres settings:</li>
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<pre><code># apt-get install pgtune
# pgtune -i /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf -o postgresql.conf-pgtune
# mv /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf.orig
# mv postgresql.conf-pgtune /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf
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<li>It introduced the following new settings:</li>
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<pre><code>default_statistics_target = 50
maintenance_work_mem = 480MB
constraint_exclusion = on
checkpoint_completion_target = 0.9
effective_cache_size = 5632MB
work_mem = 48MB
wal_buffers = 8MB
checkpoint_segments = 16
shared_buffers = 1920MB
max_connections = 80
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<li>Now I need to go read PostgreSQL docs about these options, and watch memory settings in munin etc</li>
<li>For what it&rsquo;s worth, now the REST API should be faster (because of these PostgreSQL tweaks):</li>
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<pre><code>$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.474
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
2.141
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.685
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.995
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.786
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<li>Last week it was an average of 8 seconds&hellip; now this is <sup>1</sup>&frasl;<sub>4</sub> of that</li>
<li>CCAFS noticed that one of their items displays only the Atmire statlets: <a href="https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/42445">https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/42445</a></li>
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<p><img src="../images/2015/12/ccafs-item-no-metadata.png" alt="CCAFS item" /></p>
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<li>The authorizations for the item are all public READ, and I don&rsquo;t see any errors in dspace.log when browsing that item</li>
<li>I filed a ticket on Atmire&rsquo;s issue tracker</li>
<li>I also filed a ticket on Atmire&rsquo;s issue tracker for the PostgreSQL stuff</li>
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<h2 id="2015-12-03:012a628feed6d64ae1151cbd6151ccd6">2015-12-03</h2>
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<li>CGSpace very slow, and monitoring emailing me to say its down, even though I can load the page (very slowly)</li>
<li>Idle postgres connections look like this (with no change in DSpace db settings lately):</li>
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<pre><code>$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep cgspace | grep -c idle
29
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<li>I restarted Tomcat and postgres&hellip;</li>
<li>Atmire commented that we should raise the JVM heap size by ~500M, so it is now <code>-Xms3584m -Xmx3584m</code></li>
<li>We weren&rsquo;t out of heap yet, but it&rsquo;s probably fair enough that the DSpace 5 upgrade (and new Atmire modules) requires more memory so it&rsquo;s ok</li>
<li>A possible side effect is that I see that the REST API is twice as fast for the request above now:</li>
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<pre><code>$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.368
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.968
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
1.006
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.849
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.806
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.854
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<h2 id="2015-12-05:012a628feed6d64ae1151cbd6151ccd6">2015-12-05</h2>
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<li>CGSpace has been up and down all day and REST API is completely unresponsive</li>
<li>PostgreSQL idle connections are currently:</li>
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<pre><code>postgres@linode01:~$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep cgspace | grep -c idle
28
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<ul>
<li>I have reverted all the pgtune tweaks from the other day, as they didn&rsquo;t fix the stability issues, so I&rsquo;d rather not have them introducing more variables into the equation</li>
<li>The PostgreSQL stats from Munin all point to something database-related with the DSpace 5 upgrade around midlate November</li>
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<p><img src="../images/2015/12/postgres_bgwriter-year.png" alt="PostgreSQL bgwriter (year)" />
<img src="../images/2015/12/postgres_cache_cgspace-year.png" alt="PostgreSQL cache (year)" />
<img src="../images/2015/12/postgres_locks_cgspace-year.png" alt="PostgreSQL locks (year)" />
<img src="../images/2015/12/postgres_scans_cgspace-year.png" alt="PostgreSQL scans (year)" /></p>
<h2 id="2015-12-07:012a628feed6d64ae1151cbd6151ccd6">2015-12-07</h2>
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<li>Atmire sent <a href="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/161">some fixes</a> to DSpace&rsquo;s REST API code that was leaving contexts open (causing the slow performance and database issues)</li>
<li>After deploying the fix to CGSpace the REST API is consistently faster:</li>
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<pre><code>$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.675
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.599
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.588
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.566
$ curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{time_total}\\n https://cgspace.cgiar.org/rest/handle/10568/32802?expand=all
0.497
</code></pre>
<h2 id="2015-12-08:012a628feed6d64ae1151cbd6151ccd6">2015-12-08</h2>
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<li>Switch CGSpace log compression cron jobs from using lzop to xz—the compression isn&rsquo;t as good, but it&rsquo;s much faster and causes less IO/CPU load</li>
<li>Since we figured out (and fixed) the cause of the performance issue, I reverted Google Bot&rsquo;s crawl rate to the &ldquo;Let Google optimize&rdquo; setting</li>
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