Placeholder for nightlies
Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4 Akka.NET v1.4.25 includes some significant performance improvements for Akka.Remote and a number of important bug fixes and improvements.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Akka.IO.Tcp: connecting to an unreachable DnsEndpoint never times out
- Akka.Actor: need to enforce
stdout-loglevel = off
all the way through ActorSystem lifecycle - Akka.Actor:
Ask
should push unhandled answers into deadletter - Akka.Routing: Make Router.Route` virtual
- Akka.Actor: Improve performance on
IActorRef.Child
API - signficantly improves performance of many Akka.NET functions, but includes a public API change onIActorRef
that is source compatible but not necessarily binary-compatible.IActorRef GetChild(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<string> name)
is nowIActorRef GetChild(System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyList<string> name)
. This API is almost never called directly by user code (it's almost always called via the internals of theActorSystem
when resolvingActorSelection
s or remote messages) so this change should be safe. - Akka.Actor:
IsNobody
throws NRE - Akka.Cluster.Tools: singleton fix cleanup of overdue _removed members
- Akka.DistributedData: ddata exclude
Exiting
members in Read/WriteMajorityPlus
Performance Improvements
Using our standard RemotePingPong
benchmark, the difference between v1.4.24 and v1.4.24 is significant:
v1.4.24
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, 96994, 2062.08
5, 1000000, 194818, 5133.93
10, 2000000, 198966, 10052.93
15, 3000000, 199455, 15041.56
20, 4000000, 198177, 20184.53
25, 5000000, 197613, 25302.80
30, 6000000, 197349, 30403.82
v1.4.25
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
This represents a 24% overall throughput improvement in Akka.Remote across the board. We have additional PRs staged that should get aggregate performance improvements above 40% for Akka.Remote over v1.4.24 but they didn't make it into the Akka.NET v1.4.25 release.
You can see the full set of changes introduced in Akka.NET v1.4.25 here
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4 | 358 | 184 | Andreas Dirnberger |
3 | 414 | 149 | Gregorius Soedharmo |
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2 | 43 | 10 | zbynek001 |
1 | 14 | 13 | tometchy |
1 | 139 | 3 | carlcamilleri |
Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Akka: Make
Router
open to extensions - Akka: Allow null response to
Ask<T>
- Akka.Cluster: Fix cluster startup race condition
- Akka.Streams: Fix RestartFlow bug
- Akka.Persistence.Sql: Implement TimestampProvider in BatchingSqlJournal
- Akka.Serialization.Hyperion: Bump Hyperion version from 0.11.0 to 0.11.1
- Akka.Serialization.Hyperion: Add Hyperion unsafe type filtering security feature
You can see the full set of changes introduced in Akka.NET v1.4.24 here
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5 | 360 | 200 | Aaron Stannard |
3 | 4 | 4 | dependabot[bot] |
1 | 548 | 333 | Arjen Smits |
1 | 42 | 19 | Martijn Schoemaker |
1 | 26 | 27 | Andreas Dirnberger |
1 | 171 | 27 | Gregorius Soedharmo |
Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4
Akka.NET v1.4.23 is designed to patch an issue that occurs on Linux machines using Akka.Cluster.Sharding with akka.cluster.sharding.state-store-mode=ddata
and akka.cluster.sharding.remember-entities=on
: "System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'lmdb' or one of its dependencies"
In Akka.NET v1.4.21 we added built-in support for Akka.DistributedData.LightningDb for use with the remember-entities
setting, but we never received any reports about this issue until shortly after v1.4.22 was released. Fundamentally, the problem was that our downstream dependency, Lightning.NET, doesn't include any of the necessary Linux native binaries in their distributions currently. So in the meantime, we've published our own "vendored" distribution of Lightning.NET to NuGet until a new official one is released that includes these binaries.
There are some other small fixes included in Akka.NET v1.4.23 and you can read about them here.
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2 | 61 | 3 | Gregorius Soedharmo |
Maintenance Release for Akka.NET 1.4
Akka.NET v1.4.22 is a fairly large release that includes an assortment of performance and bug fixes.
Performance Fixes
Akka.NET v1.4.22 includes a significant performance improvement for Ask<T>
, which now requires 1 internal await
operation instead of 3:
Before
Method | Iterations | Mean | Error | StdDev | Gen 0 | Gen 1 | Gen 2 | Allocated |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RequestResponseActorSelection | 10000 | 83.313 ms | 0.7553 ms | 0.7065 ms | 4666.6667 | - | - | 19 MB |
CreateActorSelection | 10000 | 5.572 ms | 0.1066 ms | 0.1140 ms | 953.1250 | - | - | 4 MB |
After
Method | Iterations | Mean | Error | StdDev | Gen 0 | Gen 1 | Gen 2 | Allocated |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RequestResponseActorSelection | 10000 | 71.216 ms | 0.9885 ms | 0.9246 ms | 4285.7143 | - | - | 17 MB |
CreateActorSelection | 10000 | 5.462 ms | 0.0495 ms | 0.0439 ms | 953.1250 | - | - | 4 MB |
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Akka: Use ranged nuget versioning for Newtonsoft.Json
- Akka: Pipe of Canceled Tasks
- Akka: CircuitBreaker's Open state should return a faulted Task instead of throwing
- Akka.Remote: Can DotNetty socket exception include information about the address?
- Akka.Remote: log full exception upon deserialization failure
- Akka.Cluster: SBR fix & update
- Akka.Streams: Restart Source|Flow|Sink: Configurable stream restart deadline
- Akka.DistributedData: ddata replicator stops but doesn't look like it can be restarted easily
- Akka.DistributedData: ddata ReadMajorityPlus and WriteMajorityPlus
- Akka.DistributedData: DData Max-Delta-Elements may not be fully honoured
You can see the full set of changes introduced in Akka.NET v1.4.22 here
Akka.Cluster.Sharding.RepairTool
In addition to the work done on Akka.NET itself, we've also created a separate tool for cleaning up any left-over data in the event of an Akka.Cluster.Sharding cluster running with akka.cluster.sharding.state-store-mode=persistence
was terminated abruptly before it had a chance to cleanup.
We've added documentation to the Akka.NET website that explains how to use this tool here: https://getakka.net/articles/clustering/cluster-sharding.html#cleaning-up-akkapersistence-shard-state
And the tool itself has documentation here: https://github.com/petabridge/Akka.Cluster.Sharding.RepairTool
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7 | 104 | 83 | Aaron Stannard |
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4 | 876 | 302 | Ismael Hamed |
2 | 3942 | 716 | zbynek001 |
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1 | 110 | 5 | Igor Fedchenko |