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Profiling in-process WCF calls
Hi,
We've been profiling our WCF-services in a number of ways and are struggeling with how to interpret results.
Initially we had Ants launch NUnit external GUI and ran our system tests. In the tes...
Hi,
Picking up thread from colleague forrest/Michael. We've been profiling our WCF-services in a number of ways and are struggeling with how to interpret results.
Initially we had Ants launch NUnit external GUI and ran our system tests. In the tests, we start the services from within NUnit. Thereby they are in the same process as NUnit and we get a profiling result from WCF-proxy down to datalayer. However, the results were quite shocking - the WCF overhead was huge. I.e. the call on the WCF-proxy was 5-10 times longer than the actual delay for the underlying methods, where we'd expected the DB-call to be the bottleneck.
We've tried the MS dual core hot-fix, but with no improvement.
Then we profiled a client which was calling the same interface, of a manually started host, and the result was quite different - the WCF overhead was reasonable. But when we had the client start the services in the same way as the tests, we got the overhead back. Code was running significantly slower, and Ants did not compensate accurately.
We've also profiled by plain old tracing to confirm that we don't have this overhead in reality.
Best regards
/Jonas Karlsson / comments
Hi,
Picking up thread from colleague forrest/Michael. We've been profiling our WCF-services in a number of ways and are struggeling with how to interpret results.
Initially we had Ants launch NUnit...