Resolves#1889.
This PR adds new tests to measure the WAL backpressure's performance under different workloads.
## Changes
- add new performance tests in `test_wal_backpressure.py`
- allow safekeeper's fsync to be configurable when running tests
The CI times out after 10 minutes of no output. It's annoying if a
test hangs and is killed by the CI timeout, because you don't get
information about which test was running. Try to avoid that, by adding
a slightly smaller timeout in pytest itself. You can override it on a
per-test basis if needed, but let's try to keep our tests shorter than
that.
For the Postgres regression tests, use a longer 30 minute timeout.
They're not really a single test, but many tests wrapped in a single
pytest test. It's OK for them to run longer in aggregate, each
Postgres test is still fairly short.
This depends on a hacked version of the 'pprof-rs' crate. Because of
that, it's under an optional 'profiling' feature. It is disabled by
default, but enabled for release builds in CircleCI config. It doesn't
currently work on macOS.
The flamegraph is written to 'flamegraph.svg' in the pageserver
workdir when the 'pageserver' process exits.
Add a performance test that runs the perf_pgbench test, with profiling
enabled.
- Remove batch_others/test_pgbench.py. It was a quick check that pgbench
works, without actually recording any performance numbers, but that
doesn't seem very interesting anymore. Remove it to avoid confusing it
with the actual pgbench benchmarks
- Run pgbench with "-n" and "-S" options, for two different workloads:
simple-updates, and SELECT-only. Previously, we would only run it with
the "default" TPCB-like workload. That's more or less the same as the
simple-update (-n) workload, but I think the simple-upload workload
is more relevant for testing storage performance. The SELECT-only
workload is a new thing to measure.
- Merge test_perf_pgbench.py and test_perf_pgbench_remote.py. I added
a new "remote" implementation of the PgCompare class, which allows
running the same tests against an already-running Postgres instance.
- Make the PgBenchRunResult.parse_from_output function more
flexible. pgbench can print different lines depending on the
command-line options, but the parsing function expected a particular
set of lines.
More rows, and test with serial and parallel plans. But fewer iterations,
so that the tests run in < 1 minutes, and we don't need to mark them as
"slow".
* Add --id argument to safekeeper setting its unique u64 id.
In preparation for storage node messaging. IDs are supposed to be monotonically
assigned by the console. In tests it is issued by ZenithEnv; at the zenith cli
level and fixtures, string name is completely replaced by integer id. Example
TOML configs are adjusted accordingly.
Sequential ids are chosen over Zid mainly because they are compact and easy to
type/remember.
* add node id to pageserver
This adds node id parameter to pageserver configuration. Also I use a
simple builder to construct pageserver config struct to avoid setting
node id to some temporary invalid value. Some of the changes in test
fixtures are needed to split init and start operations for envrionment.
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher <sher-ars@yandex.ru>
The first COPY generates about 230 MB of write I/O, but the second
COPY, after deleting most of the rows and vacuuming the rows away,
generates 370 MB of writes. Both COPYs insert the same amount of data,
so they should generate roughly the same amount of I/O. This commit
doesn't try to fix the issue, just adds a test case to demonstrate it.
Add a new 'checkpoint' command to the pageserver API. Previously,
we've used 'do_gc' for that, but many tests, including this new one,
really only want to perform a checkpoint and don't care about GC. For
now, I only used the command in the new test, though, and didn't
convert any existing tests to use it.
* change zenith-perf-data checkout ref to be main
* set cluster id through secrets so there is no code changes required
when we wipe out clusters on staging
* display full pgbench output on error
tests are based on self-hosted runner which is physically close
to our staging deployment in aws, currently tests consist of
various configurations of pgbenchi runs.
Also these changes rework benchmark fixture by removing globals and
allowing to collect reports with desired metrics and dump them to json
for further analysis. This is also applicable to usual performance tests
which use local zenith binaries.
Instead of having a lot of separate fixtures for setting up the page
server, the compute nodes, the safekeepers etc., have one big ZenithEnv
object that encapsulates the whole environment. Every test either uses
a shared "zenith_simple_env" fixture, which contains the default setup
of a pageserver with no authentication, and no safekeepers. Tests that
want to use safekeepers or authentication set up a custom test-specific
ZenithEnv fixture.
Gathering information about the whole environment into one object makes
some things simpler. For example, when a new compute node is created,
you no longer need to pass the 'wal_acceptors' connection string as
argument to the 'postgres.create_start' function. The 'create_start'
function fetches that information directly from the ZenithEnv object.
* Add yapf run to CircleCI
* Pin yapf version
* Enable `SPLIT_ALL_TOP_LEVEL_COMMA_SEPARATED_VALUES` setting
* Reformat all existing code with slight manual adjustments
* test_runner/README: note that yapf is forced
This is in preparation for supporting read-only nodes. You can launch
multiple read-only nodes on the same brach, so we need an identifier
for each node, separate from the branch name.
* Use logging in python tests
* Use f-strings for logs
* Don't log test output while running
* Use only pytest logging handler
* Add more info about pytest logging
When a WAL record affects multiple pages, we currently duplicate the
record for each affected page. That's a bit wasteful, but not too bad
for b-tree splits and non-hot heap updates that affect two pages. But
buffering GiST index build WAL-logs the whole relation in 32 page chunks,
with one giant WAL record for each 32-page chunk. Currently we duplicate
that giant record for each of the 32 pages, which is really wasteful.
Github issue https://github.com/zenithdb/zenith/issues/720 tracks the
problem. This commit adds a test case for it to demonstrate it.
Now that the page server collects this metric (since commit 212920e47e),
let's include it in the performance test results
The new metric looks like this:
performance/test_perf_pgbench.py . [100%]
--------------- Benchmark results ----------------
test_pgbench.init: 6.784 s
test_pgbench.pageserver_writes: 466 MB <---- THIS IS NEW
test_pgbench.5000_xacts: 8.196 s
test_pgbench.size: 163 MB
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