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Debug & Operations as a feature: Tracking allocations costs
One of the things that we have learned from supporting RavenDB in production is that you by default, everything is a black box into which you have exactly zero input. And in order to figure out what the problems are, you need to use expert tools (WinDBG or VM MAP for example) that are typically more focused on developers, and not usually available in production.
In RavenDB 4.0, we have started from the get go with the notion that everything we do must be exposed, tracked and monitored. Here is the results of the latest effort in that direction.
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There are several important things here. First, you can see that we are tracking the managed and unmanaged allocations that are happening in the system. More than that, we are now able to track down exactly which part of the system is responsible for that.
In the screenshots above, you can see that the UsageIpAndQuantity index has allocated about 65 MB of unmanaged memory, and that we have a few memory mapped files storing the data for index #3.
The idea is that we can now glance at this endpoint and tell very quickly what is going on. And this is something that can be done in production. In fact, that is something that we’ll expose in the studio so you can see those value change over time.
We are also waiting for the CoreCLR to expose the managed allocations on a per thread basis, which will give us even better metrics.
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By 'Humane' you mean human-readable?
Rafal, Yes
It suggests Raven could consume much more resources but mercifully decided to take just the minimum ...
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