0002913: quercus precompile load

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0002913

[Quercus]

minor

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09-08-08 12:36

01-04-09 11:24

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ferg

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ferg

Priority

normal

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fixed

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closed

Product Version

3.2.0

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0002913: quercus precompile load

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(rep by Steven Grimm)

When I fire up Resin to work with Quercus, the first thing I do is hit a dummy page that is nothing but an include of our standard PHP library suite. Our libraries are pretty huge -- over a thousand files -- and this initial dummy page takes around three minutes to execute the first time as it loads all the .php files I compiled on the previous run. The debug output looks like you'd expect:

[12:16:21.510] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/qrt/qrt.php] loading precompiled page
[12:16:21.524] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/qrt/constants.php] loading precompiled page
[12:16:21.716] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/qrt/utils.php] loading precompiled page
[12:16:21.724] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/qrt/versions.php] loading precompiled page
[12:16:21.815] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/display/feed/platform.php] loading precompiled page
[12:16:22.287] {http--8080-6} Quercus[/data/users/sgrimm/www/lib/display/feed/broadcast.php] loading precompiled page

It would be great if I could speed that up. I don't keep Resin running all the time and it's a bit of a pain to have to wait that long to do anything when I have a little time to spend on Quercus testing.

Is there a way to speed things up as is by tweaking any configuration settings? If not, a couple of possible approaches:

- Load the precompiled pages in the background, the same way compilation is kicked off as a background task, and use interpreted pages in the meantime. Maybe only do that once the number of precompiled pages loaded in a single request exceeds some threshold, so small/simple pages don't have to run any interpreted code.

- Parallelize the loading of compiled pages. I'm running on a 4-core machine but only one of those cores gets used when I'm running this page. Probably the previous item is a prerequisite to this.

Parallelizing would be great for compiling, too, by the way -- if there were multiple compiler threads it would be much faster to arrive at the desired "everything is compiled" state after blowing away the Quercus work directory, which I sometimes need to do after applying a Quercus bugfix.

Thanks! I will probably have some more bug reports for you guys this week (there are still a couple things going wrong in ways I don't understand) but it's looking much better than it used to now.

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(0003669) koreth 12-17-08 23:48	The experimental patch in the latest Resin code takes my startup time from 90-100 seconds down to 25-30, FYI. That's workable.

(0003691) ferg 01-04-09 11:24	Closing based on successful patch. At some point in the future it can be revisited for further perf improvements.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
09-08-08 12:36	ferg	New Issue
09-08-08 12:41	koreth	Issue Monitored: koreth
12-17-08 23:48	koreth	Note Added: 0003669
01-04-09 11:24	ferg	Note Added: 0003691
01-04-09 11:24	ferg	Assigned To	=> ferg
01-04-09 11:24	ferg	Status	new => closed
01-04-09 11:24	ferg	Resolution	open => fixed
01-04-09 11:24	ferg	Fixed in Version	=> 4.0.0

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