Hi Benno, These days, I never assume that a Linux package "just works" on Windows. I'm well aware (all too much) of just how different Windows is from Linux, and thus how difficult it can be to write software that works on both platforms. So unless the author of the memory management software (deployed on Linux) happened to consider Windows important enough to support, I'd assume that Windows is not supported (and would almost certainly not "just work" by chance).
I really asked my question because Mesos is intended to be a portable memory package. Thus, if we pick up a new third party dependency that would affect the Mesos agent, we should pick third party dependencies that work on Windows, Mac, and other platforms. This is something we should be thinking about. /Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Benno Evers [mailto:bev...@mesosphere.com] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 6:28 AM To: dev@mesos.apache.org Subject: Re: [Proposal] Use jemalloc as default memory allocator for Mesos Hi Jeff, from looking around on the internet, it seems like Firefox builds with jemalloc on all platforms, and I've also seen reports of people successfully using tcmalloc heap profiling on windows. I'm afraid I don't currently have a Windows machine with development environment set up, so I can't provide direct user experience. In the worst case, we would have to disable jemalloc-support on windows, but I hope it won't be necessary. Since you probably have more experience with memory management on windows, is there a reason to suspect that it should or shouldn't work? Best regards, Benno On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Jeff Coffler < jeff.coff...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi Benno, > > What's the availability of both jemalloc and tcmalloc on the Windows > platform? Do the products work there properly? > > There are solutions that I know work on Windows (from past work I've > done). I'm unsure about either jemalloc and tcmalloc, however. > > Thanks, > > /Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benno Evers [mailto:bev...@mesosphere.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 3:16 AM > To: dev@mesos.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Proposal] Use jemalloc as default memory allocator for > Mesos > > Hi Alexander, > > in general, jemalloc and tcmalloc are very similar, and seem to be > taking ideas from each other (in fact the jeprof executable started as > a copy of pprof and there are still references the pprof documentation > in some > comments) > > From what I've seen, the main difference is that the profiling seems > better-suited to multi-threaded programs, in particular the profile > file format includes per-thread memory statistics and the profiling > features can be turned on and off individually per thread. From an API > perspective, all settings can be accessed by the mallctl() function, > while it seems that tcmalloc requires some options to be set by > environment variable ( > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= > https%3A%2F%2Fgperftools.github.io%2Fgperftools% > 2Fheapprofile.html&data=02%7C01%7CJeff.Coffler%40microsoft.com% > 7Ccb0bfb1eb3e242c0dd4108d4e946d709%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011 > db47%7C1%7C0%7C636389937852256730&sdata=IQeb2% > 2BpcrWRQ8yvdTgOEHfyplgC36dy73nnXswdPamo%3D&reserved=0). Finally, I > also found the documentation to be more thorough. > > But again, the two are very similar, so I think the main decision here > isn't whether to choose jemalloc or tcmalloc but whether to switch to > a custom memory allocator that has support for profiling heap memory usage. > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Alexander Rojas > <alexan...@mesosphere.io> > wrote: > > > Hi Benno, > > > > This does sound like a great addition to Mesos. Can you however > > explain how jemalloc is better than tcmalloc? I think that for such > > important change, we probably need some more information. > > > > Your comment in MESOS-7876 mentions that we already have tcmalloc > > since it is part of gperftools, so I would like to have a whole > > picture of the advantages and disadvantages of both options. > > > > Alexander Rojas > > alexan...@mesosphere.io > > > > > > > > > > > On 18. Aug 2017, at 12:49, Benno Evers <bev...@mesosphere.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would like to propose bundling jemalloc as a new dependency > > > under `3rdparty/`, and to link Mesos against this new memory > > > allocator by default. > > > > > > > > > # Motivation > > > > > > The Mesos master and agent binaries are, ideally, very > > > long-running processes. This makes them susceptible to memory > > > issues, because even small leaks have a chance to build up over > > > time to the point where they become problematic. > > > > > > We have seen several such issues on our internal Mesos > > > installations, for example > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi > > > ss > > > ues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FMESOS-7748&data=02%7C01%7CJeff.Co > > > ff > > > ler%40microsoft.com%7Ccb0bfb1eb3e242c0dd4108d4e946d709%7C72f988bf8 > > > 6f > > > 141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636389937852266742&sdata=L016YGyEk > > > K5 > > > 0WtvhgSNS%2FT5ntkkd9qINorRI2Utp5lk%3D&reserved=0 > > > or https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url= > https%3A%2F%2Fissues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FMESOS- > 7800&data=02%7C01%7CJeff.Coffler%40microsoft.com% > 7Ccb0bfb1eb3e242c0dd4108d4e946d709%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011 > db47%7C1%7C0%7C636389937852266742&sdata=IrzDO6o1VL9a8eGJIW3jKbWXk6U4fH > Fn3Xbn4po1r3c%3D&reserved=0. > > > > > > I imagine any organization running Mesos for an extended period of > > > time has had its share of similar issues, so I expect this > > > proposal to be useful for the whole community. > > > > > > > > > # Why jemalloc? > > > > > > Given that memory issues tend to be most visible after a given > > > process has been running for a long time, it would be great to > > > have the option to enable heap tracking and profiling at runtime, > > > without having to restart the process. (This ability could then be > > > connected to a Mesos endpoint, similar to how we can adjust the > > > log level at > > > runtime) > > > > > > The two production-quality memory allocators that have this > > > ability currently seem to be tcmalloc and jemalloc. Of these, > > > jemalloc does produce in our experience better and more detailed > > > statistics. > > > > > > > > > # What is the impact on users who do not need this feature? > > > > > > Naturally, not every single user of Mesos will have a need for > > > this feature. To ensure these users would not experience serious > > > performance regressions as a result of this change, we conducted a > > > preliminary set of benchmarks whose results are collected under > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi > > > ss > > > ues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FMESOS-7876&data=02%7C01%7CJeff.Co > > > ff > > > ler%40microsoft.com%7Ccb0bfb1eb3e242c0dd4108d4e946d709%7C72f988bf8 > > > 6f > > > 141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636389937852266742&sdata=RsZcAGuFm > > > %2 > > > Bw2PPLgMql%2B9vVgkFQrZZFJYdPGcBODsCU%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > It turns out that we could probably even expect a small speedup > > > (1% > > > - 5%) as a nice side-effect of this change. > > > > > > Users who compile Mesos themselves would of course have the option > > > to disable jemalloc at configuration time or replace it with their > > > memory allocator of choice. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking forward to hear any thoughts and comments. > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > > Benno Evers > > > Software Engineer, Mesosphere > > > > > > > -- > Benno Evers > Software Engineer, Mesosphere > -- Benno Evers Software Engineer, Mesosphere
