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Re: [mosquitto-dev] Advice needed (long, sorry)

Hi Michael,

It sounds really interesting. Of course I would want to try!! This is exactly what I need. I'm now convinced of using AWS from the beginning but AWS does not offers "Mosquitto high scalability" therefore, we still have the same problem of making Mosquitto more scalable.

As I said at the beginning of this thread, we are considering Cassandra, but not to provide a shared persistence storage (great idea!). I'm not sure where to put ZeroMQ and I don't control pyhton very much. Certainly, I'm waiting for hearing more from you :-)

Best regards.


2015-03-09 22:35 GMT+01:00 Laing, Michael <michael.laing@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Manuel,

If you are willing to work with experimental code based on mosquitto 1.4, I may be able to help you.

I have a solution that allows you to run multiple brokers and interconnect them in a high performance manner.

The brokers can be on the same machine (different ports), or on multiple machines in a LAN - you may need to load balance w HAProxy or equivalent.

The brokers share retained storage using Cassandra - but I may be able to cut out Cassandra if that is an issue and use the in-memory store.

ZeroMQ is required to connect the python microservices to the broker.

It would give you much bigger numbers of connections - almost linear... I am planning to package and open source the code in the next few weeks, but could provide you with a preview.

Michael

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Manuel Domínguez Dorado <manolodd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

I'm still on my challenge to achieve 100K concurrent connections. I'm learning lots of things :-)

This time we used a set of 5 VM each one of them bombing the Mosquitto broker, creating idle connections (no susbcriptions, no publishings).

With this configuration we achieved "only" 31K concurrent connections. We decided to change the server certificate, that was using 4096 bits, and create a new one using 1024 that should consume less resources. After this change,
this time we achieved up to 40K connections. it was still possible to create new connections to the broker, but connections already established started to be disconnected because no keepalive was received. We changed keepalive value to a higher value and this time we obtained 52K concurrent connections. After this number, the vistualization server we were using to bomb the broker become exhausted, reason why the number of concurrent connections is not greater.

After this experiment, Roger, we have some suggestions:

- Is there any way of making OpenSSL lib to use more than a single processor even being Mosquitto single threaded? It could be interesting as in our case the broker's server was almost unused except for the processor being used by Mosquitto (something similar to use "openssl speed -multi 4")
- Keepalive mesages are not being sent properly when this number of establishes connections is maintained. I suppose this is for the same reason that the processor used by Mosquitto is exhausted and cannot process this amount of keepalive messages on time).

In general, It would be desirable to implement muti-threading in Mosquitto, because it is a bit extrange to have a 8 core server almost idle and a Mosquitto running on it completely overloaded. Today the trend in new processors is not to have a greater frequency but a greater number of cores, so it seems logic to make use of them. Is there a plan to develop a multi-threaded Mosquitto? The possibility of doing TLS offloading over the "free" processors would be great, too.

Ok, I'll continue posting here our advances.

Kindest regards.





2015-03-04 8:55 GMT+01:00 Manuel Domínguez Dorado <manolodd@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi, 

yes we started doing client tests using Java. It has no effect on the broker side, but on the client side, the test die at ~2K concurrent connections due to 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError (1/10 of connections achieved from nodejs).  But it is a matter of memory resources. In real conditions neither the client nor the backend will support this great number of MQTT connections. Only the broker and the haproxy will support them.

We will repeat the test tuning the memory used by nodejs and using several VM clones to start connecting to the broker.

Ciao


2015-03-04 7:47 GMT+01:00 Stefano Costa <stefano.costa@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Il 03/03/2015 23:18, Manuel Domínguez Dorado ha scritto:
Hi,

- Desktop PC (4 cores, 8 GB RAM) runing a single nodejs test that
establishes TLS connections to the Mosquitto broker at 10 new
connections/sec.

Again, did you try with anything different from nodejs at client side? Python etc? (should not make it any different anyway)






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