Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:35:32 -0500

On 06/19/2012 10:33 AM, Matthieu Bec wrote:

Hello Dirk,

CPU throttling? That often comes enabled by default if your platform
supports it.

Again - why would the throughput improve as your arrays get
bigger that 4k?

T.

Regards,
Matthieu

On 6/19/12 2:54 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:

Hi all,

I am testing the performance of array parsing with StreamDevice on a
Linux system. I am reading strings like "3.1415,3.1415,...\n" into a
waveform record with FTVL=DOUBLE. The input is via TCP from localhost.

I found a very strange duration/size relationship:
size 1 duration: 423 time/element: 423.0
size 2 duration: 234 time/element: 117.0
size 4 duration: 229 time/element: 57.2
size 8 duration: 239 time/element: 29.9
size 16 duration: 238 time/element: 14.9
size 32 duration: 259 time/element: 8.1
size 64 duration: 281 time/element: 4.4
size 128 duration: 312 time/element: 2.4
size 256 duration: 397 time/element: 1.6
size 512 duration: 552 time/element: 1.1
size 1024 duration: 40023 time/element: 39.1
size 2048 duration: 41450 time/element: 20.2
size 4096 duration: 41678 time/element: 10.2
size 8192 duration: 5579 time/element: 0.7
size 16384 duration: 10947 time/element: 0.7
size 32768 duration: 21826 time/element: 0.7
size 65536 duration: 43508 time/element: 0.7
size 131072 duration: 77358 time/element: 0.6
size 262144 duration: 138533 time/element: 0.5
size 524288 duration: 275591 time/element: 0.5
size 1048576 duration: 518404 time/element: 0.5

All times are in 1e-6 seconds. Time is measured on the server. The clock
starts before sending the string and stops after the waveform sends back
an acknowledge.

Protocol: {in "%f"; out "%(NORD)d";}

I understand that for small arrays, the time is dominated by overhead
and stays more or less constant.

But does anyone have an idea why is there this strange performance drop
for sizes between 1024 and 4096 elements?

Dirk

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System