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Gen2 Dataflow to Warehouse - really slow performance
Hi all and especially miguel , just a quick update. First, having a really hard time getting support to actually pay any attention to this - even though I submitted a ticket over a month ago. Bit frustrated as I don't think they've actually done anything at all on the ticket.
Having said that, I think I've discovered at least one of the causes of really poor performance. I was trying yesterday to load about 11 million rows into a Warehouse. The load job takes 5 minutes writing to a Lakehouse, but timed out after hours on the warehouse.
Looking in to the new "query insights" schema available in the Warehouse, I could see the records were being written in batches of only 1,000 records each. And each commit seems to have been taking 3 or 4 seconds. With 11 million records, that would be 11,000 commits * 4 seconds each = 12+ hours of time.
If this is indeed the issue - MS you've GOT to change the commit size. Maybe make it 1 million, or 10 million, but not 1000 rows.
p.s. still not sure this is "all" of the issue - on my original issue above it was only writing 34,000 records which would have been 34 commits at 4 seconds each = several minutes of excess time. I was seeing way more than that. I'll try to go back and reproduce this tomorrow, looking at the query logs to see what's going on in the database.
p.p.s. Microsoft if it helps, the ticket I opened was 2310180040012820
Thanks,
Scott
- Joshrodgers1232 years ago
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I am in the same boat as you. I think this all comes down to the write speed to the warehouse. Things just seem to lock up and time out. I can't even get 100k rows to write...
I watched the query against our on-prem sql server and noticed that it had a ASYNC_NETWORK_IO wait the whole time. According to MSFT docs, these are due to the client application (the warehouse) not accepting results fast enough.
I also noticed that the warehouse becomes unresponsive while the dataflow is running.
I can't imagine we are the only ones who are experiencing these issues. There must be some solution or acknoledgment if Fabric is now GA. I'm trying to sell Fabric to my org, but it's a bit hard when we can't get our data into it.
Here's my support ticket if it helps: 2311060040014961
- DataPne2 years agoFrequent Visitor
Same boat here.
Cannot get the dataflows to write into the warehouse for the life of me.
Support ticket is this: 2311150050004676