In order to resolve some flaky tests which hard rely on examine memory footprint.
we introduce the following fixes:
# Fix in client-eviction test - by @yoav-steinberg
Sometime the libc allocator can use different size client struct allocations.
this may cause unexpected memory calculations to fail the test.
# Introduce new DEBUG command for disabling reply buffer resizing
In order to eliminate reply buffer resizing during specific tests.
we introduced the ability to disable (and enable) the resizing cron job
Co-authored-by: yoav-steinberg yoav@redislabs.com
Current implementation simple idle client which serves no traffic still
use ~17Kb of memory. this is mainly due to a fixed size reply buffer
currently set to 16kb.
We have encountered some cases in which the server operates in a low memory environments.
In such cases a user who wishes to create large connection pools to support potential burst period,
will exhaust a large amount of memory to maintain connected Idle clients.
Some users may choose to "sacrifice" performance in order to save memory.
This commit introduce a dynamic mechanism to shrink and expend the client reply buffer based on
periodic observed peak.
the algorithm works as follows:
1. each time a client reply buffer has been fully written, the last recorded peak is updated:
new peak = MAX( last peak, current written size)
2. during clients cron we check for each client if the last observed peak was:
a. matching the current buffer size - in which case we expend (resize) the buffer size by 100%
b. less than half the buffer size - in which case we shrink the buffer size by 50%
3. In any case we will **not** resize the buffer in case:
a. the current buffer peak is less then the current buffer usable size and higher than 1/2 the
current buffer usable size
b. the value of (current buffer usable size/2) is less than 1Kib
c. the value of (current buffer usable size*2) is larger than 16Kib
4. the peak value is reset to the current buffer position once every **5** seconds. we maintain a new
field in the client structure (buf_peak_last_reset_time) which is used to keep track of how long it
passed since the last buffer peak reset.
### **Interface changes:**
**CIENT LIST** - now contains 2 new extra fields:
rbs= < the current size in bytes of the client reply buffer >
rbp=< the current value in bytes of the last observed buffer peak position >
**INFO STATS** - now contains 2 new statistics:
reply_buffer_shrinks = < total number of buffer shrinks performed >
reply_buffer_expends = < total number of buffer expends performed >
Co-authored-by: Oran Agra <oran@redislabs.com>
Co-authored-by: Yoav Steinberg <yoav@redislabs.com>
