[#86787] [Ruby trunk Feature#14723] [WIP] sleepy GC — ko1@...

Issue #14723 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

13 messages 2018/05/01
[#86790] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#14723] [WIP] sleepy GC — Eric Wong <normalperson@...> 2018/05/01

[email protected] wrote:

[#87095] [Ruby trunk Feature#14767] [PATCH] gc.c: use monotonic counters for objspace_malloc_increase — ko1@...

Issue #14767 has been updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada).

9 messages 2018/05/17
[#87096] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#14767] [PATCH] gc.c: use monotonic counters for objspace_malloc_increase — Eric Wong <normalperson@...> 2018/05/17

[email protected] wrote:

[ruby-core:87064] [Ruby trunk Feature#14718] Use jemalloc by default?

From: mperham@...
Date: 2018-05-16 05:29:52 UTC
List: ruby-core #87064
Issue #14718 has been updated by mperham (Mike Perham).


Dennis, my focus for this issue is fixing the memory bloat problem that plagues 1000s of Rails apps today, not a hypothetical performance problem that might affect Guilds months or years from now.

In the future Ruby could increase arenas if additional Guilds beyond the first are allocated but I believe that M_ARENA_MAX=2 would be a good, useful solution today for non-Guild apps that upgrade to Ruby 2.6.

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Feature #14718: Use jemalloc by default?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14718#change-72023

* Author: mperham (Mike Perham)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I know Sam opened #9113 4 years ago to suggest this but I'm revisiting the topic to see if there's any movement here for Ruby 2.6 or 2.7.  I supply a major piece of Ruby infrastructure (Sidekiq) and I keep hearing over and over how Ruby is terrible with memory, a huge memory hog with their Rails apps.  My users switch to jemalloc and a miracle occurs: their memory usage drops massively.  Some data points:

https://twitter.com/brandonhilkert/status/987400365627801601
https://twitter.com/d_jones/status/989866391787335680
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3824#issuecomment-383072469

Redis moved to jemalloc many years ago and it solved all of their memory issues too.  Their conclusion: the glibc allocator "sucks really really hard". http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/everything-about-redis-24.html

This is a real pain point for the entire Rails community and would improve Ruby's reputation immensely if we can solve this problem.



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