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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-20239

Built-in sampling heap profiler

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      It would be useful to have a built-in facility for debugging memory consumption issues in mongod, as this has become an increasingly frequent problem, both in the field and in development.

      • built in to mongod - no additional software dependencies need to be installed. This is important pariculary for diagnosing memory problems in the field, but also will make in-house diagnosis simpler.
      • enabled in one of the following ways (in decreasing order of preference)
        • dynamically by a runtime command
        • at startup time by a mongod startup option
        • by compiling a special version of mongod (using flags to scons defined for the purpose)
      • performance impact should be the best achievable of the following (rough guesses at required performance impact in parens):
        • small enough that the facility could be left on indefinitely in production (<1% impact)
        • small enough that the facility could be turned on for a limited time in production (<10% impact)
        • small enough that we could ask a customer to use it while reproducing a memory issue in a test environment (<50% impact)
      • the facility should be able to diagnose, identifying by source code call-site the source of the memory consumption, the following classes of issues:
        • memory leaks - memory not deallocated at exit
        • excess or unexpected memory consumption that is not a leak as such, that is, the memory is still tracked and would be freed on exit

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            bruce.lucas@mongodb.com Bruce Lucas (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            bruce.lucas@mongodb.com Bruce Lucas (Inactive)
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