The main purpose of this command-line flag is to increase the lifetime of low-end flash storage
with the limited number of write operations it can perform. Such flash storage is usually
installed on Raspberry PI or similar appliances.
For example, `-inmemoryDataFlushInterval=1h` reduces the frequency of disk write operations
to up to once per hour if the ingested one-hour worth of data fits the limit for in-memory data.
The in-memory data is searchable in the same way as the data stored on disk.
VictoriaMetrics automatically flushes the in-memory data to disk on graceful shutdown via SIGINT signal.
The in-memory data is lost on unclean shutdown (hardware power loss, OOM crash, SIGKILL).
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3337
The panic has been introduced in 68f3a02589
While at it, add padding to shard structs in order to avoid false sharing on mordern CPUs
This should improve scalability on systems with many CPU cores
The ioutil.{Read|Write}File is deprecated since Go1.16 -
see https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16#ioutil
VictoriaMetrics needs at least Go1.18, so it is safe to remove ioutil usage
from source code.
This is a follow-up for 02ca2342ab
* lib/storage: bump max merge concurrency for small parts to 15
The change is based on the feedback from users on github.
Thier examples show, that limit of 8 sometimes become a
bottleneck. Users report that without limit concurrency
can climb up to 15-20 merges at once.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update lib/storage/partition.go
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/storage: prevent excessive loops when storage is in RO
Returning nil error when storage is in RO mode results
into excessive loops and function calls which could
result into CPU exhaustion. Returning an err instead
will trigger delays in the for loop and save some resources.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* document the change
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Workers count for merges affects the max part size during merges. Such behaviour
protects storage from running out of disk space for scenario when all workers
are merging parts with the max size.
This works very well for most cases. But for systems where high number of CPUs
is allocated for vmstorage components this could significantly impact the max
part size and result in more unmerged parts than expected.
While checking multiple production highly loaded setups it was discovered that
`max_over_time(vm_active_merges{type="storage/big}[1h]}"` rarely exceeds 2,
and `max_over_time(vm_active_merges{type="storage/small}[1h]}"` rarely exceeds 4.
The change in this commit limits the max value for concurrency accordingly.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously these caches could exceed limits set via `-memory.allowedPercent` and/or `-memory.allowedBytes`,
since limits were set independently per each data part. If the number of data parts was big, then limits could be exceeded,
which could result to out of memory errors.
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007
