I believe preloading should work fine. It has been a common way to
debug buffer overruns using electric fence and similar tools for
years, and I have used it in large applications of similar size to
Ceph.
Daniel
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Shinobu Kinjo wrote:
>
> Pre loading jemalloc after compiling with malloc
>
> $ cat hoge.c
> #include
>
> int main()
> {
> int *ptr = malloc(sizeof(int) * 10);
>
> if (ptr == NULL)
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> free(ptr);
> }
>
>
> $ gcc ./hoge.c
>
>
> $ ldd ./a.out
> linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fffe17e5000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7fc989c5f000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x55a718762000)
>
>
> $ nm ./a.out | grep malloc
> U malloc@@GLIBC_2.2.5 // malloc loaded
>
>
> $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1 \
> > ldd a.out
> linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff7fd36000)
> /usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1 (0x7fe6ffe39000)// jemallo loaded
> libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7fe6ffa61000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fe6ff844000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x560342ddf000)
>
>
> Logically it could work, but in real world I'm not 100% sure if it works for
> large scale application.
>
> Shinobu
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Somnath Roy"
> To: "Alexandre DERUMIER"
> Cc: "Sage Weil" , "Milosz Tanski" ,
> "Shishir Gowda" , "Stefan Priebe"
> , "Mark Nelson" , "ceph-devel"
>
> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 2:03:41 AM
> Subject: RE: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing
>
> Need to see if client is overriding the libraries built with different malloc
> libraries I guess..
> I am not sure in your case the benefit you are seeing is because of qemu is
> more efficient with tcmalloc/jemalloc or the entire client stack ?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Alexandre DERUMIER [mailto:aderum...@odiso.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 9:57 AM
> To: Somnath Roy
> Cc: Sage Weil; Milosz Tanski; Shishir Gowda; Stefan Priebe; Mark Nelson;
> ceph-devel
> Subject: Re: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing
>
> >>Wanted to know is there any reason we didn't link client libraries with
> >>tcmalloc at the first place (but did link only OSDs/mon/RGW) ?
>
> Do we need to link client librairies ?
>
> I'm building qemu with jemalloc , and it's seem to be enough.
>
>
>
> - Mail original -
> De: "Somnath Roy"
> À: "Sage Weil" , "Milosz Tanski"
> Cc: "Shishir Gowda" , "Stefan Priebe"
> , "aderumier" , "Mark Nelson"
> , "ceph-devel"
> Envoyé: Samedi 22 Août 2015 18:15:36
> Objet: RE: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing
>
> Yes, even today rocksdb also linked with tcmalloc. It doesn't mean all the
> application using rocksdb needs to be built with tcmalloc.
> Sage,
> Wanted to know is there any reason we didn't link client libraries with
> tcmalloc at the first place (but did link only OSDs/mon/RGW) ?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Sage Weil [mailto:s...@newdream.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 6:56 AM
> To: Milosz Tanski
> Cc: Shishir Gowda; Somnath Roy; Stefan Priebe; Alexandre DERUMIER; Mark
> Nelson; ceph-devel
> Subject: Re: Ceph Hackathon: More Memory Allocator Testing
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Milosz Tanski wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Shishir Gowda
> > wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Have sent out a pull request which enables building librados/librbd with
> > > either tcmalloc(as default) or jemalloc.
> > >
> > > Please find the pull request @
> > > https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/5628
> > >
> > > With regards,
> > > Shishir
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something here, this seams like the wrong thing to.
> > Libraries that will be linked in by other external applications should
> > not have a 3rd party malloc linked in there. That seams like an
> > application choice. At the very least the default should not be to
> > link in a 3rd party malloc.
>
> Yeah, I think you're right.
>
> Note that this isn't/wasn't always the case, though.. on precise, for
> instance, libleveldb links libtcmalloc. They stopped doing this sometime
> before trusty.
>
> sage
>
>
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