| With the new jenkins.model.StandardArtifactManager.disableTrafficCompression property (JENKINS-26008 / PR #4205), I was expecting improved performances when archiving artifacts from slaves to master. Especially when there is no room for further compression (when the artifact is already a compressed archive).
But my first tests with 2.204.1 and this option are disappointing. On my test setup:
- with traffic compression (default setting), archiving a ~200 MB .tar.gz file consistently takes ~50 seconds (which is really not great already)
- without traffic compression (the new option), it now takes ~240 seconds!
I suspect this is because FilePath.TarCompression.NONE lacks a layer of buffering input/output streams, which is there in FilePath.TarCompression.GZIP:
FilePath.java#L758
- GZIPInputStream is a buffering InputStream (here with buffer size set to 8K)
- GZIPOutputStream is a buffering OutputStream (with a default buffer size of 512), and here there is also an addition BufferedOutputStream involved (with its default buffer size of 8K)
I will submit a PR for FilePath.TarCompression.NONE to add the missing buffering layer, such that the difference with GZIP will really only be about compression. |
