| Re: [jetty-dev] Trying to make sense of slow server response times |
My current hypothesis is this: If you are using an AMD processor (like an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X in my case) and a certain Kernel version (like the one provided by Debian 11, 5.10) your CPU heavy server task might be running x2 slower than when you execute the same task standalone (without Jetty). At least this is exactly what happened in our case. The benchmark I provided demonstrates this. I also reproduced the issue without the benchmark by simply starting a Jetty server and running frequent requests against an endpoint that does some CPU heavy computation. I was even able to control the response time by switching between the different scaling governors in another terminal.
So I don't think this is a Jetty issue, but it is somehow only triggered when I use Jetty. It likely affects other Jetty users as well. I still don't know why this happens and happens only in the context of the Jetty server. Maybe it is because in the server context the requests are handled by different cores and therefore the scaling governor is not triggered to scale up the frequency for any of the cores, while without the server all computation is handled by the same core and thus the frequency is scaled up by the governor in this case.