Changes:
mwrap 2.1.0 - heap_page_body struct tracking
This release enables tracking of memalign allocations for
"struct heap_page_body" in the Ruby GC. This can be useful
for tracking deathspans (time between free and re-allocation)
of heap page bodies which can cause fragmentation in some
malloc implementations, including glibc.
The documentation for it is available at:
https://80x24.org/mwrap/Mwrap/HeapPageBody.html
And a live demo runs at:
https://80x24.org/MWRAP/heap_pages
This release also includes global counters for
Mwrap.total_bytes_allocated and Mwrap.total_bytes_freed
10 changes since v2.0.0 (2018-07-20):
add olddoc.yml to generate links in page footers
add .olddoc.yml to MANIFEST
gemspec: use "git describe" output for prereleases
add global counters for total bytes allocated/freed
keep stats for memalign-ed heap_page_body in Ruby
remove "memalign:" MWRAP option
allow dump_heap: mask via MWRAP env
tweak hpb stats destructor output
struct acc: use 64-bit counters
doc: 2.1 pre-release updates
About:
mwrap is designed to answer the question:
Which lines of Ruby are hitting malloc the most?
mwrap wraps all malloc-family calls to trace the Ruby source
location of such calls and bytes allocated at each callsite.
As of mwrap 2.0.0, it can also function as a leak detector
and show live allocations at every call site. Depending on
your application and workload, the overhead is roughly a 50%
increase memory and runtime.
It works best for allocations under GVL, but tries to track
numeric caller addresses for allocations made without GVL so you
can get an idea of how much memory usage certain extensions and
native libraries use.
It requires the concurrent lock-free hash table from the
Userspace RCU project: https://liburcu.org/
It does not require recompiling or rebuilding Ruby, but only
supports Ruby trunk (2.6.0dev+) on a few platforms:
* GNU/Linux
* FreeBSD (tested 11.1)
It may work on NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Mailing list and archives:
https://80x24.org/mwrap-public/
nntp://80x24.org/inbox.comp.lang.ruby.mwrap
mailto:mwrap-public@80x24.org (no HTML mail, please)
Note: I might not be able answer questions about this for a few days.
git clone https://80x24.org/mwrap.git
homepage + rdoc: https://80x24.org/mwrap/