Netty-based Storage Driver

Netty uses its own I/O worker thread pool. The count of these threads is controlled by the storage-driver-threads configuration option. However the connection pool allows to keep much more open connections at any moment of time. The count of the open connections may be limited by storage-driver-limit-concurrency configuration option.

1. Configuration Reference

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
storage-net-node-addrs	List of strings	127.0.0.1	The list of the storage node IPs or hostnames to use for HTTP load. May include port numbers.
storage-net-node-connAttemptsLimit	Integer >= 0	0	The limit for the subsequent connection attempts for each storage endpoint node. The node is excluded from the connection pool forever if the node has more subsequent connection failures. The default value (0) means no limit.
storage-net-node-port	Integer > 0	7	The common port number to access the storage nodes, may be overriden adding the port number to the storage-driver-addrs, for example: "127.0.0.1:9020,127.0.0.1:9022,..."
storage-net-node-slice	Flag	false	Slice the storage node addresses between the mongoose nodes using the greatest common divisor or not
storage-net-bindBacklogSize	Integer >= 0	0
storage-net-interestOpQueued	Flag	false
storage-net-keepAlive	Flag	true
storage-net-linger	Integer >= 0	0
storage-net-reuseAddr	Flag	true
storage-net-rcvBuf	Fixed size >= 0	0	The network connection input buffer size. Estimated automatically if 0 (default)
storage-net-sndBuf	Fixed size >= 0	0	The network connection output buffer size. Estimated automatically if 0 (default)
storage-net-selectInterval	Integer > 0	100
storage-net-tcpNoDelay	Flag	true
storage-net-timeoutMilliSec	Integer >= 0	1000000	The socket timeout
storage-net-ioRatio	0 < Integer < 100	50	Internal Netty's I/O ratio parameter. It's recommended to make it higher for large request/response payload (>1MB)
storage-net-transport	Enum	nio	The I/O transport to use (see the details). By default tries to use "nio" (the most compatible). For Linux try to use "epoll", for MacOS/BSD use "kqueue" (requires rebuilding).
storage-net-ssl-ciphers	List of strings	null	The list of ciphers to use if SSL is enabled. First cipher in the list that matches is applied. Make sure to match used ciphers and protocols.
storage-net-ssl-enabled	Flag	false	The flag to enable the load through SSL/TLS. Currently only HTTPS implementation is available. Have no effect if configured storage type is filesystem.
storage-net-ssl-protocols	List of strings	TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2, SSLv3	The list of secure protocols to use if SSL is enabled
storage-net-ssl-provider	String	OPENSSL	The SSL provider. May be "OPENSSL" (better performance) or "JDK" (fallback)

2. Node Balancing

Mongoose uses the round-robin way to distribute I/O tasks if multiple storage endpoints are used. Mongoose will try to distribute the active connections equally among the endpoints if a connection fails.

3. SSL/TLS

java -jar mongoose-<VERSION>.jar \
    --storage-net-ssl-enabled \
    --storage-net-node-port=9021 \
    ...

4. Connection Timeout

java -jar mongoose-<VERSION>.jar \
    --storage-net-timeoutMillisec=100000 \
    ...

5. I/O Buffer Size

Mongoose automatically adopts the input and output buffer sizes depending on the step info. For example, for create I/O type the input buffer size is set to the minimal value (4KB) and the output buffer size is set to configured data item size (if any). If read I/O type is used the behavior is right opposite - specific input buffer size and minimal output buffer size. This improves the I/O performance significantly. But users may set the buffer sizes manually.

Example: setting the input buffer to 100KB:

java -jar mongoose-<VERSION>.jar \
    --storage-net-rcvBuf=100KB \
    ...

Example: setting the output buffer to 10MB:

java -jar mongoose-<VERSION>.jar \
    --storage-net-sndBuf=10MB \
    ...