[ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] ovirt-engine-sdk-python too slow

[John Hunter]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/24/2015 01:40 PM, John Hunter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Oved Ourfali <oourfali at redhat.com
> > <mailto:oourfali at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi
> >
> >     I discussed it with Juan (cc-ed).
> >
> >     There used to be a bug in the JDBC authenticion extension that
> >     artificially delayed RESTAPI responses by 5 seconds:
> >
> >       brute force prevention login delay should not be applied to
> successful
> >     login requests
> >       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1255814
> >
> >     That matches the description of the issue, but in theory it has been
> >     fixed. I would suggest him to check that he is using the right
> version
> >     of the extension.
> >
> > I did not use the extension ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc, and I don't
> > think this bug matches my problem, because even there is only one line
> > in the python script, it still cost like 3 seconds, I don't think this
> is a
> > reasonable time as when I import other package, it cost almost no time.
> >
> > Can you explain why this import line costs so much time?
> >
>
> If you are using 3.6 then you are using ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc,
> as it is enabled by default, but looks like it isn't related to your
> problem.
>
> That line takes a long time to execute because it has to process two
> large Python modules: the "params" module that contains a class per each
> type used by the API (393 classes) and the "brokers" module that
> contains a class per each resource used by the API (358 classes). That
> makes a total of 751 classes. In my environment it takes 0.9 seconds,
> approx. You may want to use the python profile in your environment and
> share the results:
>
> $ cat > profile.py <<.
> import cProfile
> cProfile.run("from ovirtsdk.api import API")
> .
>
> $ python profile.py
>
> I won't be surprised to see this taking those 3 seconds in a slower
> environment.
>
> But even if this takes those 3 seconds it shouldn't be a big problem,
> because you shouldn't be running that "from ... import ..." line
> frequently. Your program should do this once only, when it starts.
>
> Assume that I have two functions to implement, one is to list all the vms
belong
to the user, and the other is to retrieve one vm's virt-viewer connection
file, as
far as I can see, I have to write two python scripts and import the
ovirtsdk.api in both
scripts, each script has to take the 3 seconds :(

How can I run the "from ... import ..." just once ?


> >
> >     In addition we also know that retrieving large lists of objects with
> the
> >     SDK is slow:
> >
> >        [RFE][performance] - generate large scale list running to slow.
> >        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1221238
> >
> >     We don't have a solution for that yet.
> >
> >     CC-ing Juan in case you have additional questions.
> >
> >
> >     On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:27 AM, John Hunter <zhjwpku at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:zhjwpku at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Hi guys,
> >
> >         I am using the ovirt-engine-sdk-python to communicate with the
> >         ovirt-engine,
> >         I am ok to list the vms but the processing time is too long,
> >         like 4.5 seconds,
> >         and this line:
> >             from ovirtsdk.api import API
> >         take almost 3 seconds.
> >
> >         This seems a little bit longer than I expected it to be, so I am
> >         asking is there
> >         a quicker way to communicate with the ovirt-engine?
> >
>
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Best regards
Junwang Zhao
Department of Computer Science &Technology
Peking University
Beijing, 100871, PRC
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