Marklogic latency : Document not found - cluster-computing

I am working on a clustered marklogic environment where we have 10 Nodes. All nodes are shared E&D Nodes.
Problem that we are facing:
When a page is written in marklogic its takes some time (upto 3 secs) for all the nodes in the cluster to get updated & its during this time if I then do a read operation to fetch the previously written page, its not found.
Has anyone experienced this latency issue? and looked at eliminating it then please let me know.
Thanks

It's normal for a new document to only appear after the database transaction commits. But it is not normal for a commit to take 3-sec.
Which version of MarkLogic Server?
Which OS and version?
Can you describe the hardware configuration?
How large are these documents? All other things equal, update time should be proportional to document size.
Can you reproduce this with a standalone host? That should eliminate cluster-related network latency from the transaction, which might tell you something. Possibly your cluster network has problems, or possibly one or more of the hosts has problems.
If you can reproduce the problem with a standalone host, use system monitoring to see what that host is doing at the time. On linux I favor something like iostat -Mxz 5 and top, but other tools can also help. The problem could be disk I/O - though it would have to be really slow to result in 3-sec commits. Or it might be that your servers are low on RAM, so they are paging during the commit phase.
If you can't reproduce it with a standalone host, then I think you'll have to run similar system monitoring on all the hosts in the cluster. That's harder, but for 10 hosts it is just barely manageable.

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How to increase resource allocation to ravendb

I'm trying to process a document and store many documents into ravendb which I have running locally.
I'm getting the error
Tried to send *ravendb.BatchCommand request via POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/databases/mydb/bulk_docs to all configured nodes in the topology, all of them seem to be down or not responding. I've tried to access the following nodes: http://127.0.0.1:8080
I was able to fetch mydb topology from http://127.0.0.1:8080.
Fetched topology: ( url: http://127.0.0.1:8080, clusterTag: A, serverRole: Member)
exit status 1
To me, it sounds like maybe my local cluster is running out of compute to process the large amount of data I'm trying to store.
RavenDB says I'm using 3 of 12 available cores, and I'd also like to make sure it's using a reasonable amount of the ram I have available on the machine (I'd even be happy with giving it a swap)
But reading around online, I'm not finding much helpful information for making sure RavenDB is able to use what it needs. I found the settings.json so I can add in configurations which theoretically should get included into the server but I'm not making much progress.
I also found some settings and changed "reassign cores" to 12 but it says that still 3/12 are being used and 6/31.1 GB of memory are being used.
If an alternative solution is recommended I'm all ears. I just need to run things locally and storing everything as json's doesn't enable fast enough retrieval for my usecase.
Update
I was able to install mongodb and setup a local database. It hasn't given me any problems yet. RavenDB looks appealing if I understood it better but I guess I'll stick with the tried and true for this project.
It is highly unlikely that you managed to run out of resources on the server with 3 cores / 6 GB unless you are pushing hundreds of millions of documents and doing very heavy work.
Do you get any error on the server? There should be more details on the error or in the server log.

ubuntu server cpu utilisation increasing very quickly after installing ELK

I installed elasticsearch logstash and kibana in the ubuntu server. Before I starting these services the CPU utilization is less than 5% and after starting these services in the next minute the CPU utilization crossing 85%. I don't know why it is happening. Can anyone help me with this issue?
Thanks in advance.
There is not enough information in your question to give you a specific answer, but i will point out few possible scenarios and how to deal with them.
Did you wait long enough? sometimes there is a warmpup which is consuming higher CPU until all services are registered and finish to boot. if you have a fairly small machine it might consume higher CPU and take longer to finish.
folder write permissions. if any of the components of the ELK fails due to restricted access on needed directories either for logging, creating sub folders for sinceDB files or more it can cause it to go into an infinity loop and try again and again while it is consuming high CPU.
connection issues. ES should be the first component to start, if it fails, Kibana and Logstash will go and try to connect to the ES again and again until successful connection- which can cause high CPU.
bad logstash configuration. if logstash fails to read the file from the configurations or if you have a bad parsing, excessive parsing for example- your first "match" in the filter part will include the least common option it might consume high CPU.
For further investigation:
I suggest you to not start all of them together. start ES first. if everything goes well start Kibana and lastly start Logstash.
check the logs of all the ELK components to find error messages, failures, etc.
for a better answer I will need the yaml of all 3 components (ES, Kibana, Logstash)
I will need the logstash configuration file.
Would recommend you to analyse the CPU cycles consumed by each of the elasticsearch, logstash and kibana process.
Check specifically which process among the above is consuming the most memory/cpu via top command for example.
Start only ES first and allow it to settle and the node to be started completely before starting kibana and may be logstash after that.
Send me the logs for each and I can assist if there are any errors.

When one node is very slow in Hadoop Cluster?

I've hadoop cluster of 5 nodes.
I've two concerns
1) What can be done when one of the node is running or processing data very slow (Not stopped) comapre to other nodes .. ?
2) I've set up log4j to capture logs, but How can I keep logs of all nodes at Name node or at one main server .. ?
Please suggest ...!
Thanks
To question one, it's not clear which service is slow... Datanode? Namenode? Maybe you need to increase the heap sizes of these processes, or the Dataset you've stored is heavily skewed onto that server.
You would need to install monitoring software to capture IO, CPU, network, etc metrics to really diagnose any hardware bottlenecks. From there, make sure that that one server is running latest OS patches, has latest drivers, and a similar hardware profile of other machines you're comparing against. Maybe the hard drive or NIC is failing, but without hardware diagnostic software, it'd be hard to know
For question 2, you'd again need additional software, such as Elasticsearch, to centrally collect and index your logs from many systems

Diagnosing pathological behavior of a piece of cluster software

I'm using a kind of load balancer over a small cluster that is able to achieve >2000rps on zero-duration requests (t.i. ones that are immediately satisfied by the worker nodes).
But as soon as the requests stop being zero-duration and start taking even 1ms, performance immediately drops >10x. The data being transfered in both directions is identical and is about 2kb in size.
This is for sure not related to saturation of the cluster or network throughput, because 200rps of 1ms requests is a very tiny load and the network is 10Gbit. Besides, the CPU load is just some 2-5% both on the load balancer and on the worker nodes.
I wonder whether that might be related to some pathological behavior of the OS scheduler, or the OS network stack (t.i. there is some special case behavior for very short interactions).
How might I diagnose the reason? Which perfcounters to watch? What tools or methodologies to use?
(Just in case someone simply knows the answer to my particular problem, I'm talking about the MS HPC Server 2008 R2's "WCF Broker", running on Windows Server 2008 R2 over Hyper-V)
One thing you can do is use ETW tracing to try and understand what the nodes are doing while your WCF job is running. On HPC server, I sometimes clusrun xperf to collect traces on all or specific nodes. There are a number of tools that you can use for analyzing ETW traces, including xperf itself. I haven't done any serious work using HPC SOA (WCF), but I did write a simple WCF raytracer app and then used xperf to profile it on several of the nodes.
Turned out it was a completely network-unrelated issue having to do with peculiarities of the scheduling mechanism of HPC Server. I resolved the issue by tweaking a configuration option "serviceRequestPrefetchCount" to 0 in the loadBalancing section of the WCF service config file.
I'm assuming that there are some shared resources with some kind of locking system in place? Is locking a bottleneck? It's hard to guess without seeing the system.
Do you have a way to profile the workers? What are they spending most of their time on, especially in the fast vs slow scenarios?

Strange performance using JPA, am I missing something?

We have a JPA -> Hibernate -> Oracle setup, where we are only able to crank up to 22 transactions per seconds (two reads and one write per transaction). The CPU and disk and network are not bottlenecking.
Is there something I am missing? I wonder if there could be some sort of oracle imposed limit that the DBA's have applied?
Network is not the problem, as when I do raw reads on the table, i can do 2000 reads per second. The problem is clearly writes.
CPU is not the problem on the app server, the CPU is basically idling.
Disk is not the problem on the app server, the data is completely loaded into memory before the processing starts
Might be worth comparing performance with a different client technology (or even just a simple test using SQL*Plus) to see if you can beat this performance anyway - it may simply be an under-resourced or misconfigured database.
I'd also compare the results for SQLPlus running directly on the d/b server, to it running locally on whatever machine your Java code is running on (where it is communicating over SQLNet). This would confirm if the problem is below your Java tier.
To be honest there are so many layers between your JPA code and the database itself, diagnosing the cause is going to be fun . . . I recall one mysterious d/b performance problem resolved itself as a misconfigured network card - the DBAs were rightly insistent that the database wasn't showing any bottlenecks.
It sounds like the application is doing a transaction in a bit less than 0.05 seconds. If the SELECT and UPDATE statements are extracted from the app and run them by themselves, using SQL*Plus or some other tool, how long do they take, and if you add up the times for the statements do they come pretty near to 0.05? Where does the data come from that is used in the queries, and which eventually gets used in the UPDATE? It's entirely possible that the slowdown is not the database but somewhere else in the app, such a the data acquisition phase. Perhaps something like a profiler could be used to find out where the app is spending its time.
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