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RavenDB 2.0 StopShip Bug

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In the past few days, it sometimes felt like RavenDB is a naughty boy who want to eat all of the cake and leave none for others.

The issue is that under certain set of circumstances, RavenDB memory usage would spike until it would consume all of the memory on the machine. The problem is that we are pretty sure what is the root cause of the problem, it is the prefetching data that is killing us. Proven by the fact that when we disable that, we seem to be operating fine. And we did find quite a few such issues. And we got them fixed.

And still the problem persists… (picture torn hair and head banging now).

To make things worse, in our standard load tests, we couldn’t see this problem. It was our dog fooding tests that actually caught it. And it only happened after a relatively long time in production. That sucked, a lot.

The good news is that I eventually sat down and wrote a test harness that could pretty reliably reproduce this issue. That narrowed down things considerably. This issue is related to map/reduce and to prefetching, but we are still investigating.

Here are the details:

  • Run RavenDB on a machine that has at least 2 GB of free RAM.
  • Run the Raven.SimulatedWorkLoad, it will start writing documents and creating indexes
  • After about 50,000 – 80,000 documents have been imported, you’ll begin seeing memory rises rapidly, to use as much free memory as you have.

On my machine, it got to 6 GB before I had to kill it. I took a dump of the process memory at around 4.3GB, and we are analyzing this now. The frustrating thing is that the act of taking the mem dump dropped the memory usage to 1.2GB.

I wonder if we aren’t just creating so much memory garbage that the GC just let us consume all available memory. The problem with that is that it gets so bad that we start paging, and I don’t think the GC should allow that.

The dump file can be found here (160MB compressed), if you feel like taking a stab in it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to open WinDBG and see what I can find.

Memory (storage engine)

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