diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/parser/test/ParserPerformanceTest.java b/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/parser/test/ParserPerformanceTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17cd4ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-external-data/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/external/parser/test/ParserPerformanceTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.asterix.external.parser.test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.CoderResult;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import org.apache.asterix.external.input.record.CharArrayRecord;
+import org.apache.asterix.external.parser.ADMDataParser;
+import org.apache.asterix.external.util.ExternalDataConstants;
+import org.apache.asterix.om.pointables.base.DefaultOpenFieldType;
+import org.apache.hyracks.data.std.util.ArrayBackedValueStorage;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+public class ParserPerformanceTest {
+
+    public void benchmark() throws Exception {
+        int seed = 2;
+        int levels = 26;
+        int[] rounds = getRounds(seed, levels);
+        for (int round : rounds) {
+            round(round);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private int[] getRounds(int seed, int levels) {
+        int[] rounds = new int[levels];
+        rounds[0] = seed;
+        for (int i = 1; i < rounds.length; i++) {
+            seed *= 2;
+            rounds[i] = seed;
+        }
+        return rounds;
+    }
+
+    public void round(int round) throws Exception {
+        System.err.println("Running a parse round of size = " + round + " records");
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        byte[] json = "{\"name\":\"value\"}".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        long start = System.nanoTime();
+        for (int i = 0; i < round; i++) {
+            om.readTree(json);
+        }
+        long end = System.nanoTime();
+        long jacksonTime = end - start;
+        CharsetDecoder decoder = StandardCharsets.UTF_8.newDecoder();
+        CharBuffer chars = CharBuffer.allocate(ExternalDataConstants.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);
+        CharArrayRecord record = new CharArrayRecord();
+        set(json, decoder, chars, record);
+        ADMDataParser parser = new ADMDataParser(DefaultOpenFieldType.NESTED_OPEN_RECORD_TYPE, false);
+        ArrayBackedValueStorage output = new ArrayBackedValueStorage();
+        start = System.nanoTime();
+        for (int i = 0; i < round; i++) {
+            output.reset();
+            parser.parse(record, output.getDataOutput());
+        }
+        end = System.nanoTime();
+        long admParserTime = end - start;
+        System.err.println("Jackson time = " + jacksonTime);
+        System.err.println("AdmParser time = " + admParserTime);
+    }
+
+    private static void set(final byte[] content, final CharsetDecoder decoder, final CharBuffer chars,
+            final CharArrayRecord record) throws IOException {
+        chars.clear();
+        ByteBuffer bytes = ByteBuffer.wrap(content);
+        CoderResult result = decoder.decode(bytes, chars, true);
+        if (result.isError() || (result.isUnderflow() && bytes.remaining() > 0)) {
+            throw new IOException(result.toString());
+        }
+        chars.flip();
+        record.append(chars);
+        record.endRecord();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMHarness.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMHarness.java
index 1069f8f..1bdd250 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMHarness.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/common/impls/LSMHarness.java
@@ -253,8 +253,8 @@
                                     }
                                     break;
                                 case INACTIVE:
-                                    ITracer.check(tracer).instant(lsmIndex.toString(), "release-memory-component",
-                                            Scope.p, null);
+                                    ITracer.check(tracer).instant(c.toString(), "release-memory-component", Scope.p,
+                                            lsmIndex.toString());
                                     ((AbstractLSMMemoryComponent) c).reset();
                                     // Notify all waiting threads whenever the mutable component's has change to inactive. This is important because
                                     // even though we switched the mutable components, it is possible that the component that we just switched