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  1. Couchbase Server
  2. MB-24398

[FTS] moss - thread-per-FS-syscall golang issue

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • Major
    • bug-backlog
    • 5.0.0
    • fts, moss
    • None
    • Untriaged
    • Unknown

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      hat tip to Marty Schoch [X] for finding this...

      "See issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817

      It seems that the thread-per-system-call in Go can hurt I/O performance in some cases. I know we were surprised to see so many Go routines in one of our customer dumps.

      (...the issue) seems to include smart people saying this is both essential (brad fitzpatrick) and impossible (tv42)."

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      Related, there's a level of indirection on the file API's side of moss, that might allow for optional application controlled throttling of I/O ops...

      https://github.com/couchbase/moss/blob/master/file.go#L27

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