[tor-dev] Comparing Stem, metrics-lib, and zoossh

[Damian Johnson]

Nice! Few questions...

* Where are your metrics-lib scripts used for the benchmarks? Should
be easy for me to write stem counterparts once I know what we're
running. I'll later be including our demo scripts with the benchmarks
later so if possible comments would be nice so they're good examples
for newcomers to our libraries.

* Which exact tarballs are you parsing? It would be useful if we ran
all our benchmarks on the same host with the same data.

* Please take note somewhere of the metric-lib commit id used since
I'll want to include that later when we add the results to our site.

Sorry I didn't get to this for the task exchange. Been focusing on Nyx
so quite a few things have fallen off my radar.

Cheers! -Damian


On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
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> Hi Damian,
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> I'm digging out this old thread, because I think it's still relevant.
>
> I started writing some performance evaluations for metrics-lib and got
> some early results.  All examples read a monthly tarball from
> CollecTor and do something trivial with each contained descriptor that
> requires parsing them.  Here are the average processing times by type:
>
> server-descriptors-2015-11.tar.xz: 0.334261 ms
> server-descriptors-2015-11.tar: 0.285430 ms
> extra-infos-2015-11.tar.xz: 0.274610 ms
> extra-infos-2015-11.tar: 0.215500 ms
> consensuses-2015-11.tar.xz: 255.760446 ms
> consensuses-2015-11.tar: 246.713092 ms
> microdescs-2015-11.tar.xz[*]: 0.099397 ms
> microdescs-2015-11.tar[*]: 0.066566 ms
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> [*] The microdescs* tarballs contain microdesc consensuses and
> microdescriptors, but I only cared about the latter; what I did is
> extract tarballs, delete microdesc consensuses, and re-create and
> re-compress tarballs
>
> These evaluations were all run on a Core i7 with 2GHz using an SSD as
> storage.
>
> Any surprises in these results so far?
>
> Would you want to move forward with the comparison and also include
> Stem?  (And, Philipp, would you want to include Zoossh?)
>
> All the best,
> Karsten
>
>
> On 01/10/15 09:28, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Hello Philipp and iwakeh, hello list,
>>
>> Damian and I sat down yesterday at the dev meeting to talk about
>> doing a comparison of the various descriptor-parsing libraries with
>> respect to capabilities, run-time performance, memory usage, etc.
>>
>> We put together a list of things we'd like to compare and tests
>> we'd like to run that we thought we'd want to share with you.
>> Damian and I will both be working on these for metrics-lib for a
>> short while and then switch to Stem.  Please feel free to join us
>> in these effort. The result is supposed to live on Stem's home page
>> unless somebody comes up with a better place.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> All the best, Damian and Karsten
>>
>>
>> On 30/09/15 10:57, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>>> 1. capabilities - supported descriptor types - all the ones on
>>> CollecTor's formats.html - hidden service descriptors (have an
>>> agreed @type for that) - getting/producing descriptors - reading
>>> from file/directory - reading from tarballs - reading from
>>> CollecTor's .xz-compressed tarballs - fetching from CollecTor -
>>> downloading from directories (authorities or mirrors) -
>>> generating (for unit test) - recognizing @type annotation -
>>> inferencing from file name - keeping reading history - user
>>> documentation - validation (format, crypto, successful
>>> sanitization) - packages available - how much usage by (large)
>>> applications
>>
>>> 2. performance (CPU time, memory overhead) - compression:
>>> .xz-compressed tarballs/decompressed tarballs/plain-text -
>>> descriptor type: consensus, server descriptor, extra-info
>>> descriptor, microdescriptors - validation: on or off (allows
>>> lazy loading)
>>
>>> 3. tests by descriptor type - @type server-descriptor 1.0 -
>>> Stem's "List Outdated Relays" - average advertised bandwidth -
>>> fraction of relays that can exit to port 80 - @type extra-info
>>> 1.0 - sum of all written and read bytes from
>>> write-history/read-history - number of countries from which v3
>>> requests were received - @type network-status-consensus-3 -
>>> average number of relays with Exit flag - @type
>>> network-status-vote-3 - Stem's "Votes by Bandwidth Authorities" -
>>> @type dir-key-certificate-3 - @type
>>> network-status-microdesc-consensus-3 1.0 - @type microdescriptor
>>> 1.0 - look at single microdesc cons and microdescs, compile list
>>> of extended families - fraction of relays that can exit to port
>>> 80 - @type network-status-2 1.0 - @type directory 1.0 - @type
>>> bridge-network-status - @type bridge-server-descriptor - @type
>>> bridge-server-descriptor 1.0 - @type bridge-extra-info 1.3 -
>>> @type bridge-pool-assignment - @type tordnsel 1.0 - @type torperf
>>> 1.0
>>
>>> 4. action items - get in touch with Dererk for packaging
>>> metrics-lib for Debian
>>
>>
>>
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