kennknowles opened a new issue, #18642:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/18642
After running pipeline for a while in a streaming mode (reading from Pub/Sub
and writing to BigQuery, Datastore and another Pub/Sub) I noticed drastic
memory usage of a process. Using guppy as a profiler I got the following
results:
start
```
INFO *** MemoryReport Heap:
Partition of a set of 240208 objects. Total size = 34988840 bytes.
Index Count % Size % Cumulative % Kind (class / dict of class)
0 88289 37 8696984
25 8696984 25 str
1 53333 22 4897352 14 13594336 39 tuple
2 5083 2 2790664
8 16385000 47 dict (no owner)
3 1939 1 1749656 5 18134656 52 type
4 699
0 1723272 5 19857928 57 dict of module
5 12337 5 1579136 5 21437064 61 types.CodeType
6 12403 5 1488360 4 22925424 66 function
7 1939 1 1452616 4 24378040 70 dict
of type
8 677 0 709496 2 25087536 72 dict of 0x1e4d880
9 25603 11 614472
2 25702008 73 int
<1103 more rows. Type e.g. '_.more' to view.>
```
after several hours of running
```
INFO *** MemoryReport Heap:
Partition of a set of 1255662 objects. Total size = 315029632 bytes.
Index Count % Size % Cumulative % Kind (class / dict of class)
0 95554 8 99755056
32 99755056 32 dict of
apache_beam.runners.direct.bundle_factory._Bundle
1 117943 9 54193192 17 153948248 49 dict (no owner)
2 161068 13 27169296 9 181117544
57 unicode
3 94571 8 26479880 8 207597424 66 dict of
apache_beam.pvalue.PBegin
4
126461 10 12715336 4 220312760 70 str
5 44374 4 12424720 4 232737480 74 dict of
apitools.base.protorpclite.messages.FieldList
6 44374 4 6348624 2 239086104 76
apitools.base.protorpclite.messages.FieldList
7 95556
8 6115584 2 245201688 78
apache_beam.runners.direct.bundle_factory._Bundle
8 94571 8
6052544 2 251254232 80 apache_beam.pvalue.PBegin
9 57371 5 5218424 2 256472656 81 tuple
<1187
more rows. Type e.g. '_.more' to view.>
```
I see that every bundle still sits in memory and all its data too. why
aren't the gc-ed?
What is the policy for gc for the dataflow processes?
Imported from Jira
[BEAM-3622](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3622). Original Jira may
contain additional context.
Reported by: krnr.
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