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Aliaksandr Valialkin
7d5c64eb7a
all: add -inmemoryDataFlushInterval command-line flag for controlling the frequency of saving in-memory data to disk
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
2022-12-05 15:28:09 -08:00
Aliaksandr Valialkin
7ffa66d249
lib/{mergeset,storage}: take into account byte slice capacity when returning the size of in-memory part
This results in more correct reporting of memory usage for in-memory parts
2022-12-03 22:31:34 -08:00
Aliaksandr Valialkin
b805a675f3 lib/{mergeset,storage}: switch from sync.Pool to chan-based pool for inmemoryPart objects
This should reduce memory usage on systems with big number of CPU cores,
since every inmemoryPart object occupies at least 64KB of memory and sync.Pool maintains
a separate pool inmemoryPart objects per each CPU core.

Though the new scheme for the pool worsens per-cpu cache locality, this should be amortized
by big sizes of inmemoryPart objects.
2021-07-06 16:33:25 +03:00
Aliaksandr Valialkin
3845420a8f lib: extract common code for returning fast unix timestamp into lib/fasttime 2020-05-14 23:06:50 +03:00
Aliaksandr Valialkin
41f512af1c all: add vm_data_size_bytes metrics for easy monitoring of on-disk data size and on-disk inverted index size 2019-07-04 19:43:04 +03:00
Aliaksandr Valialkin
1836c415e6 all: open-sourcing single-node version 2019-05-23 00:18:06 +03:00