[Catalyst] HTML::FormHandler performance issue in Catalyst app -- 50 seconds?!

will trillich will.trillich at serensoft.com
Tue Apr 12 13:14:18 GMT 2011


Thanks for the tips, Peter -- and for
http://dragonstaff.blogspot.com/2009/05/testing-with-perl-catalyst.html! Got
some cranking to do...


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Peter Edwards <peter at dragonstaff.co.uk>wro=
te:

> On 12 April 2011 02:53, will trillich <will.trillich at serensoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks -- this may be more of a FormHandler question than a Catalyst
>> question but I thought I'd check here to see if it's just us:
>>
>> We've been using HTML::FormHandler and are basically happy with it...
>> until the performance issue mentioned below hit us. Any Catalystas runni=
ng
>> into 50-second turnaround time with H:FH?
>>
>> [info] Request took 51.956100s (0.019/s)
>> .------------------------------------------------------------+----------=
-.
>> | Action                                                     | Time     =
 |
>> +------------------------------------------------------------+----------=
-+
>> | /auto                                                      | 0.000181s=
 |
>> | /auth                                                      | 0.001857s=
 |
>> | /ticket/base                                               | 0.004652s=
 |
>> | /ticket/item                                               | 0.005865s=
 |
>> | /ticket/edit                                               | 51.88091s=
 |
>> |  Base:EDIT                                                 | 51.88050s=
 |
>> |   get FORM                                                 | 0.000078s
>> |
>> |   process FORM                                             | *51.87286s
>> * |
>> | /end                                                       | 0.000290s=
 |
>> '------------------------------------------------------------+----------=
-'
>>
>> Turnaround time ranges from 6 seconds to 50+ seconds, with no discernable
>> pattern to the delay. (We can edit the same record multiple times and get
>> wildly differing lags.)
>>
>>
>> Run your test server with perl -d:NYTProf myapp.pl and see which routines
> use the time http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Devel::NYTProf .
> Maybe it is blocking on DNS network lookups.
> Or if the time isused around the database calls, run with DBIC_TRACE=3D1 =
perl
> myapp.pl and watch and see which are the slow ones,  then run your
> database query optimiser like  EXPLAIN SELECT foo;
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/explain.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-explain.html
> Are other processes/users accessing the same database? If so check for lo=
ck
> competition. Also disk space.
>
> Regards, Peter
>
>
>
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