1.4.27 October 11 2021
Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4
Akka.NET v1.4.27 is a small release that contains some major performance improvements for Akka.Remote.
Performance Fixes
In RemoteActorRefProvider address paring, caching and resolving improvements Akka.NET contributor @Zetanova introduced some major changes that make the entire ActorPath class much more reusable and more parse-efficient.
Our last major round of Akka.NET performance improvements in Akka.NET v1.4.25 produced the following:
OSVersion: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
ProcessorCount: 16
ClockSpeed: 0 MHZ
Actor Count: 32
Messages sent/received per client: 200000 (2e5)
Is Server GC: True
Thread count: 111
Num clients, Total [msg], Msgs/sec, Total [ms]
1, 200000, 130634, 1531.54
5, 1000000, 246975, 4049.20
10, 2000000, 244499, 8180.16
15, 3000000, 244978, 12246.39
20, 4000000, 245159, 16316.37
25, 5000000, 243333, 20548.09
30, 6000000, 241644, 24830.55
In Akka.NET v1.4.27 those numbers now look like:
OSVersion: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.
ProcessorCount: 16
ClockSpeed: 0 MHZ
Actor Count: 32
Messages sent/received per client: 200000 (2e5)
Is Server GC: True
Thread count: 111
Num clients, Total [msg], Msgs/sec, Total [ms]
1, 200000, 105043, 1904.29
5, 1000000, 255494, 3914.73
10, 2000000, 291843, 6853.30
15, 3000000, 291291, 10299.75
20, 4000000, 286513, 13961.68
25, 5000000, 292569, 17090.64
30, 6000000, 281492, 21315.35
To put these numbers in comparison, here's what Akka.NET's performance looked like as of v1.4.0:
Num clients (actors) Total [msg] Msgs/sec Total [ms]
1 200000 69736 2868.60
5 1000000 141243 7080.98
10 2000000 136771 14623.27
15 3000000 38190 78556.49
20 4000000 32401 123454.60
25 5000000 33341 149967.08
30 6000000 126093 47584.92
We've made Akka.Remote consistently faster, more predictable, and reduced total memory consumption significantly in the process.
You can see the full set of changes introduced in Akka.NET v1.4.27 here
| COMMITS | LOC+ | LOC- | AUTHOR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 89 | 8 | Aaron Stannard |
| 1 | 856 | 519 | Andreas Dirnberger |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Vadym Artemchuk |
| 1 | 261 | 233 | Gregorius Soedharmo |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | dependabot[bot] |
Changes:
- 193c74e Merge pull request #5305 from akkadotnet/dev
- e575a8a Akka.NET v1.4.27 Release Notes (#5304)
- 029d007 Clean-up MNTR for standalone migration (#5302)
- dbe76a2 Bump Hyperion from 0.11.1 to 0.11.2 (#5301)
- a091c2a Added telemetry injection point for
Ask<T>(#5297) - 01c35a9 RemoteActorRefProvider address paring, caching and resolving improvments (#5273)
- e657820 SmallestMailboxPool clarification (#5295)
- 7a5caa2 Update RELEASE_NOTES.md
This list of changes was auto generated.