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  1. WiredTiger
  2. WT-2950

Inserting multi-megabyte values can cause large in-memory pages

    • Type: Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • WT2.9.0, 3.2.11, 3.4.0-rc1
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: None
    • Storage 2016-10-31

      Constructing a workload that:

      • Inserts 16MB values from 10 threads in parallel
      • Configures a memory_page_max of 5MB
      • Does not do checkpoints
      • Does not use explicit transactions

      Can lead to in-memory pages growing to over 1GB. That is bad for a number of reasons, including:

      • Reconciliation will need to allocate a large amount of memory when writing the page out.
      • Reconciliation will be slow, leading to application stalls.

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            Assignee:
            backlog-server-execution [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Storage Execution Team
            Reporter:
            alexander.gorrod@mongodb.com Alexander Gorrod
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