Re: tcmalloc issue

[Mark Nelson <mnelson@redhat.com>]

FWIW, I've seen perf top traces like this in the past.  It's making me 
wonder how many times I've seen this and not connected the dots.

Mark

On 03/26/2015 06:18 PM, Somnath Roy wrote:
> Sage,
> Here is the tcmalloc issue I was talking in the performance meeting.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/issues/detail?id=585
>
> The tcmalloc is consuming lot of cpus (and eventually slowing down the performance) with the following perf top  trace.
>
> 25.73% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] tcmalloc::CentralFreeList::FetchFromSpans()
> 12.52% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] tcmalloc::ThreadCache::ReleaseToCentralCache(tcmalloc::ThreadCache::FreeList*, unsigned long, int)
> 11.62% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] tcmalloc::CentralFreeList::ReleaseToSpans(void*)
> 1.56% [kernel] [k] __copy_user_nocache
> 1.44% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] tcmalloc::CentralFreeList::RemoveRange(void*, void*, int)
> 1.39% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] tcmalloc::CentralFreeList::ReleaseListToSpans(void*)
> 0.89% libtcmalloc.so.4.1.2 [.] operator new(unsigned long)
>
>
> The TCMALLOC_MAX_TOTAL_THREAD_CACHE_BYTES is alleviating that but the env variable setting for this is a noop in the binary we are having in Ubuntu 14.04. It is fixed in gperftools-2.1.90 release.
> See the following link.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
>
> We can request Ubuntu guys to incorporate this version or the latest tcmalloc version which is gperftools-2.4.
>
> It will be really helpful if you can push them to incorporate this in 14.04 updates.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
>
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