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Wed Oct 14
For RAM comparison, on our current EC2 production, after being up for some time, passenger reports this memory use:
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PID VMSize Private Name
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18108 299.2 MB 2.0 MB Passenger watchdog
18114 1082.6 MB 5.3 MB Passenger core
18139 30.4 MB 0.4 MB /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/passenger-5.3.7/buildout/support-binaries/PassengerAgent temp-dir-toucher /tmp/passenger-standalone.11jhb2e --cleanup --daemonize --pid-file /tmp/passenger-standalone.11jhb2e/temp_dir_toucher.pid --log-file /opt/scihist_digicoll/shared/passenger.log --user digcol --nginx-pid 18123
18187 958.4 MB 340.2 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18206 873.4 MB 281.1 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18225 738.5 MB 197.3 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18244 736.6 MB 160.8 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18261 736.7 MB 158.1 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18278 736.8 MB 169.9 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18295 736.9 MB 163.0 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18312 737.0 MB 169.8 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18329 737.1 MB 163.2 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...)
18346 737.2 MB 162.4 MB Passenger AppPreloader: /opt/scihist_digicoll/current (forking...) |
So actually it’s true that the Private RSS was getting up to 340MB, although after more use. One difference is that on heroku it seems to balloon up memory quicker. But I may have under-estimated our RAM use – although it still isn’t the 400-500MB+ that we’re seeing in heroku.
An app with the work show page almost entirely disabled is at sample#memory_total=277.77MB sample#memory_rss=269.82MB
We might be able to get under 300 by making the work/show page avoid loading all children at once with an “infinite scroll” technique. This would also take care of our slowest pages. Pages we are trying that are NOT large-membered-work-show seem to currently on ‘standard’ rather than ‘hobby’ resources be loading at similar times to current EC2, we think? Fixity report 3s on heroku compared to 3.5s on EC2, so actually faster on heroku?
If we limit to only 50 children on a page, ramelli loads from heroku in about 2.6s (yeah, still slow), and takes RAM: sample#memory_total=447.76MB sample#memory_rss=399.51MB
gah why is this still so much!! – I guess the way we did it we still loaded all children into memory but just didn’t display them, let’s chagne that…. after a few loads, still up to sample#memory_total=466.50MB sample#memory_rss=398.28MB
gahhhh.
If we limit to the 5 child work, we get a more reasonable sample#memory_total=321.20MB sample#memory_rss=252.28MB
… to compare, let’s slice ramelli to actually 5 children… it’s still taking more than 2 seconds to return (what’s it doing?), but is sample#memory_total=395.11MB sample#memory_rss=326.82MB
, ok i guess?
without actual member display code, and limited to 5…. sample#memory_total=391.79MB sample#memory_rss=323.62MB
… about the same… aha, it’s partially our viewer_images_info taking up all the memory, that one still has full list. (but doesn’t explain why the page load time is so slow) Just curl… no, still slow still same memory.
A moment to look at speed again
Yes, even with standard-2x and standard pg, ramelli is taking 4-6s on heroku, compared to 2-2.5s on our current EC2. 😞 Smaller 115-item work goes from 0.5-0.6s on EC2 to ~0.9-1.2S on heroku, what.
RAM how many threads can we get away with
RAILS_MAX_THREADS
our puma config pays attention to that heroku config env, making it easy to switch.
One worker 5 threads on a standard-1x (512MB) dyno – we exceeded memory capacity repeatedly requesting ramelli. 😞
three threads – yep, still exceeded quota.
two threads? seems to be okay, but pushing it! We wouldn’t want our app to expand it’s wasteland any further. sample#memory_total=497.73MB sample#memory_rss=473.06MB
going back to one thread for a consistent baseline for exploring how changes effect memory.
Monday Oct 12/Tuesday Oct 13
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