[reSIProcate] Awful performance on Leopard

[Adam Roach]

So.... for <10k transactions, we would run *faster* with the firewall 
turned on some non-trivial fraction of the time? This is getting more 
bizarre...

/a

On 07/11/2008 11:43 PM, Alan Hawrylyshen wrote:
> Byron,
>
> If you want here is a graph showing the performance.
> I generated this by running testStack --num-runs=X --bind=127.0.0.1 in 
> a loop where X was uniformly distributed between 100 and 100000 for 
> many hours.
> The results from each run are summarized in a single dot. (X on the 
> x-axis and the reported transaction rate on the y axis).
>
> Red - Application Firewall enabled
> Green - Application Firewall disabled as per control panel and 
> instructions posted in this thread.
>
>
> Let me know if you want data too.
>
> Thanks
> Alan
>
> On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:54 , Eric McMurry wrote:
>
>> To bring the application firewall back up:
>>
>> ----
>> sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf firewallunload 
>> -int 0
>>
>> sudo launchctl unload 
>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.alf.agent.plist
>>
>> sudo launchctl load 
>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.alf.agent.plist
>> ----
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 13:29 , Byron Campen wrote:
>>
>>>     Also, I just figured out how to kill the socketfilterfw deamon 
>>> (without it spontaneously reviving itself), and performance is back 
>>> to normal:
>>>
>>> [bcampen at dn3-233:~/checkouts/resiprocatehead/resip/stack/test]$ 
>>> ./testStack --num-runs=100000 --bind=127.0.0.1
>>> Performing 100000 runs.
>>> 100000 registrations peformed in 35384 ms, a rate of 2826.14 
>>> transactions per second.]
>>> Note: this test runs both sides (client and server)
>>>
>>>     I did verify that traffic was flowing too. If you wish to try it 
>>> yourself (and keep in mind, this completely disables your firewall), 
>>> you probably need to do the following:
>>>
>>>
>>> sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf 
>>> firewallunload -int 1
>>> sudo killall socketfilterfw
>>>
>>>     To put things back the way they were, you probably need to do 
>>> the following:
>>> sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf 
>>> firewallunload -int 0
>>>
>>> and reboot (not exactly sure how else to get the daemon to start 
>>> back up).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Byron Campen
>>>
>>>
>>>> How did you determine that the firewall was at fault? What 
>>>> profiling tool did you use? I'd like to see the results too.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> A
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 11, 2008, at 10:47 , Byron Campen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     Basically the same results:
>>>>>
>>>>> [bcampen at dn3-233:~/checkouts/resiprocatehead/resip/stack/test]$ 
>>>>> ./testStack --num-runs=100000 --bind=127.0.0.1
>>>>> Performing 100000 runs.
>>>>> 100000 registrations peformed in 208295 ms, a rate of 480.088 
>>>>> transactions per second.]
>>>>> Note: this test runs both sides (client and server)
>>>>
>>>
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