This should improve vmselect performance scalability on systems with many CPU cores.
The following tasks were done:
- Use separate temporary files for storing the data read from each vmstorage node.
This may result in the following potential issues:
- Up to N times higher memory usage for performing each query where N is the number
of vmstorage nodes known to vmselect.
This issue shouldn't increase chances of out of memory errors in most cases,
since per-query memory overhead is quite low comparing to the overall vmselect memory usage.
- Up to N times higher number of open temporary files where N is the number
of vmstorage nodes known to vmselect.
This issue should be fixed by increasing the limit on the number of open files.
- Use separate counters per each vmstorage node for various stats calculation
when reading the data from vmstorage nodes.
Previously bytesutil.Resize() was copying the original byte slice contents to a newly allocated slice.
This wasted CPU cycles and memory bandwidth in some places, where the original slice contents wasn't needed
after slize resizing. Switch such places to bytesutil.ResizeNoCopy().
Rename the original bytesutil.Resize() function to bytesutil.ResizeWithCopy() for the sake of improved readability.
Additionally, allocate new slice with `make()` instead of `append()`. This guarantees that the capacity of the allocated slice
exactly matches the requested size. The `append()` could return a slice with bigger capacity as an optimization for further `append()` calls.
This could result in excess memory usage when the returned byte slice was cached (for instance, in lib/blockcache).
Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2007
All the callers for fs.OpenReaderAt expect that the file will be opened.
So it is better to log fatal error inside fs.MustOpenReaderAt instead of leaving this to the caller.
* feat(vmselect): add tmp block dir size metrics `vm_tmp_blocks_files_size_total`
* refactor(vmselect): use free space instead of used space in tmp block file metrics
* fix: add `bytes` suffix to tmp dir free space metric
The maximum inmemory file size now depends on `-memory.allowedPercent`.
This should improve performance and reduce the number of filesystem calls
on machines with big amounts of RAM when performing heavy queries
over big number of samples and time series.
