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 Topic: Apache does 6s of reads before serving a simple http request |
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Gerbus
Joined: 29 Jan 2018
Posts: 2
Location: Canada, Vancouver
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 Posted: Tue 30 Jan '18 5:34 Post subject: Apache does 6s of reads before serving a simple http request |
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Hi there. So I've got apache (v.2.2.22 Ubuntu) serving my php sites, and I recently wrote some node webapps, and realized that node was serving up http responses way quicker than apache (I had wrongly been assuming Linode was to blame).
I ran
| Code: | | ps auxw | grep sbin/apache | awk '{print " -p " $2}' | xargs strace -o apache2.log |
to look at what happens in apache when I send a request. In Chrome's dev tools (network), I see that the initial request for my page (http://gerbus.ca/laststand) takes about 7 seconds to receive a response.
In the strace (see http://gerbus.ca/apache2.log, I see a ton of read lines, taking about 6 seconds (from 14:19:19 to 14:19:25).
Anyone have any idea what's going on? Why so much reading for a small 8.7kb file? |
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mraddi
Joined: 27 Jun 2016
Posts: 152
Location: Schömberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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| Posted: Wed 31 Jan '18 0:37 Post subject: |
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Hello,
I can confirm that it takes that much time to open the mentioned URL. 
From the strace.log I see that it takes a lot of time to read data from the ip-address 198.103.183.67 (inter-l01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca). 
Why does it take so long for your application to read data from that host?
Is it that much data you have to read or is there a bandwidth-throttling (as you are doing to much requests per time-interval)?
Could you speed up things by only requesting the needed data from the remote host (instead of all data you can get) or by caching data localy and work with this data?
In addition I am wondering about the following line within the resulting HTML-code:
| Code: | | rootpath: "http://45.79.70.145/sites/gerbus.ca/" |
What is this for? If I open this URL with a browser I only get a 404. |
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Gerbus
Joined: 29 Jan 2018
Posts: 2
Location: Canada, Vancouver
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| Posted: Wed 31 Jan '18 19:07 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Of course! My file is getting data from the hydrography API and doesn't send anything to the client's browser until all that data is fetched. I dialed down the default number of days of data it fetches, and told the api not to return meta data, and that go me to ~3s load time. Better, but probably what I should do is fetch the data asynchronously with javascript so the page loads immediately.
Thanks again! |
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