tdb2: overallocate the recovery area.
I noticed a counter-intuitive phenomenon as I tweaked the coalescing code: the more coalescing we did, the larger the tdb grew! This was measured using "growtdb-bench 250000 10". The cause: more coalescing means larger transactions, and every time we do a larger transaction, we need to allocate a larger recovery area. The only way to do this is to append to the file, so the file keeps growing, even though it's mainly unused! Overallocating by 25% seems reasonable, and gives better results in such benchmarks. The real fix is to reduce the transaction to a run-length based format rather then the naive block system used now. Before: $ time ./growtdb-bench 250000 10 > /dev/null && ls -l /tmp/growtdb.tdb && time ./tdbtorture -s 0 && ls -l torture.tdb && ./speed --transaction 2000000 real 0m57.403s user 0m11.361s sys 0m4.056s -rw------- 1 rusty rusty 689536976 2011-04-27 21:10 /tmp/growtdb.tdb testing with 3 processes, 5000 loops, seed=0 OK real 1m24.901s user 0m0.380s sys 0m0.512s -rw------- 1 rusty rusty 655368 2011-04-27 21:12 torture.tdb Adding 2000000 records: 941 ns (110551992 bytes) Finding 2000000 records: 603 ns (110551992 bytes) Missing 2000000 records: 428 ns (110551992 bytes) Traversing 2000000 records: 416 ns (110551992 bytes) Deleting 2000000 records: 741 ns (199517112 bytes) Re-adding 2000000 records: 819 ns (199517112 bytes) Appending 2000000 records: 1228 ns (376542552 bytes) Churning 2000000 records: 2042 ns (553641304 bytes) After: $ time ./growtdb-bench 250000 10 > /dev/null && ls -l /tmp/growtdb.tdb && time ./tdbtorture -s 0 && ls -l torture.tdb && ./speed --transaction 2000000 real 0m59.687s user 0m11.593s sys 0m4.100s -rw------- 1 rusty rusty 752004064 2011-04-27 21:14 /tmp/growtdb.tdb testing with 3 processes, 5000 loops, seed=0 OK real 1m17.738s user 0m0.348s sys 0m0.580s -rw------- 1 rusty rusty 663360 2011-04-27 21:15 torture.tdb Adding 2000000 records: 926 ns (110556088 bytes) Finding 2000000 records: 592 ns (110556088 bytes) Missing 2000000 records: 416 ns (110556088 bytes) Traversing 2000000 records: 422 ns (110556088 bytes) Deleting 2000000 records: 741 ns (244003768 bytes) Re-adding 2000000 records: 799 ns (244003768 bytes) Appending 2000000 records: 1147 ns (295244592 bytes) Churning 2000000 records: 1827 ns (568411440 bytes)
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