microcosm.blue
Fast and robust atproto CAR file processing in rust
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bad-example.com
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current car processing times (records processed into their length usize, phil's dev machine):
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- 128MiB CAR file: `350ms`
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- 450MiB CAR file (huge): `1.3s`
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- 128MiB (huge): `350ms`
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- 5.0MiB: `6.8ms`
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- 279KiB: `170us`
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- 3.4KiB: `5.2us`
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static GLOBAL: MiMalloc = MiMalloc;
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- 128MiB CAR file: `310ms` (-13%)
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- 450MiB CAR file: `1.1s` (-15%)
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- 128MiB: `310ms` (-13%)
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- 5.0MiB: `6.1ms` (-10%)
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- 279KiB: `160us` (-5%)
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- 3.4KiB: `5.7us` (-9%)
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- empty: `660ns` (-7%)
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processing CARs requires buffering blocks, so it can consume a lot of memory. repo-stream's in-memory driver has minimal memory overhead, but there are two ways to make it work with less mem (you can do either or both!)
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running the huge-car benchmark
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1. spill blocks to disk
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2. inline block processing
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#### spill blocks to disk
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this is a little slower but can greatly reduce the memory used. there's nothing special you need to do for this.
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#### inline block processing
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if you don't need to store the complete records, you can have repo-stream try to optimistically apply a processing function to the raw blocks as they are streamed in.
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#### constrained mem perf comparison
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sketchy benchmark but hey. mimalloc is enabled, and the processing spills to disk. inline processing reduces entire records to 8 bytes (usize of the raw record block size):
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- 450MiB CAR file: `5.0s` (4.5x slowdown for disk)
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- 128MiB: `1.27s` (4.1x slowdown)
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fortunately, most CARs in the ATmosphere are very small, so for eg. backfill purposes, the vast majority of inputs will not face this slowdown.
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#### running the huge-car benchmark
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- to avoid committing it to the repo, you have to pass it in through the env for now.
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