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Ceph Daemon Memory Profiling

This procedure is meant as an instructional guide to provide information back to HPE Cray to assist in tuning and troubleshooting exercises.

NOTE For this example, a ceph-mon process on ncn-s001 is used.

(ncn-s00[1-3]#) Identify the process and location of the daemon to profile.

ceph orch ps --daemon_type mon

Example output:

NAME          HOST      STATUS        REFRESHED  AGE  VERSION  IMAGE NAME                        IMAGE ID      CONTAINER ID
mon.ncn-s001  ncn-s001  running (1h)  60s ago    1h   15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8  5553b0cb212c  bcca26f69191
mon.ncn-s002  ncn-s002  running (1h)  61s ago    1h   15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8  5553b0cb212c  43c8472465b2
mon.ncn-s003  ncn-s003  running (1h)  61s ago    1h   15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8  5553b0cb212c  7aa1b1f19a00

SSH to the node where the process is running if it is different from the current node.
(ncn-s#) Start the profiler.
```
ceph tell mon.ncn-s001 heap start_profiler
```
A message stating mon.ncn-s001 started profiler will be returned.

(ncn-s#) Dump statistics. This does NOT require the profiler to be running.

ceph tell mon.ncn-s001 heap stats

Example output:

mon.ncn-s001 tcmalloc heap stats:------------------------------------------------
MALLOC:      972461744 (  927.4 MiB) Bytes in use by application
MALLOC: +            0 (    0.0 MiB) Bytes in page heap freelist
MALLOC: +      8804424 (    8.4 MiB) Bytes in central cache freelist
MALLOC: +      3706880 (    3.5 MiB) Bytes in transfer cache freelist
MALLOC: +     25649416 (   24.5 MiB) Bytes in thread cache freelists
MALLOC: +      5636096 (    5.4 MiB) Bytes in malloc metadata
MALLOC:   ------------
MALLOC: =   1016258560 (  969.2 MiB) Actual memory used (physical + swap)
MALLOC: +    189841408 (  181.0 MiB) Bytes released to OS (aka unmapped)
MALLOC:   ------------
MALLOC: =   1206099968 ( 1150.2 MiB) Virtual address space used
MALLOC:
MALLOC:          14833              Spans in use
MALLOC:             25              Thread heaps in use
MALLOC:           8192              Tcmalloc page size
------------------------------------------------
Call ReleaseFreeMemory() to release freelist memory to the OS (via madvise()).
Bytes released to the OS take up virtual address space but no physical memory.

(ncn-s#) Dump heap. This requires the profiler to be running.

ceph tell mon.ncn-s001 heap dump

Example output:

mon.ncn-s001 dumping heap profile now.
------------------------------------------------
MALLOC:      976849264 (  931.6 MiB) Bytes in use by application
MALLOC: +            0 (    0.0 MiB) Bytes in page heap freelist
MALLOC: +      8819048 (    8.4 MiB) Bytes in central cache freelist
MALLOC: +      3617280 (    3.4 MiB) Bytes in transfer cache freelist
MALLOC: +     25531176 (   24.3 MiB) Bytes in thread cache freelists
MALLOC: +      5636096 (    5.4 MiB) Bytes in malloc metadata
MALLOC:   ------------
MALLOC: =   1020452864 (  973.2 MiB) Actual memory used (physical + swap)
MALLOC: +    185647104 (  177.0 MiB) Bytes released to OS (aka unmapped)
MALLOC:   ------------
MALLOC: =   1206099968 ( 1150.2 MiB) Virtual address space used
MALLOC:
MALLOC:          14834              Spans in use
MALLOC:             25              Thread heaps in use
MALLOC:           8192              Tcmalloc page size
------------------------------------------------
Call ReleaseFreeMemory() to release freelist memory to the OS (via madvise()).
Bytes released to the OS take up virtual address space but no physical memory.

(ncn-s#) Release memory.
```
ceph tell mon.ncn-s001 heap release
```
A message stating mon.ncn-s001 releasing free RAM back to system will be returned.
(ncn-s#) Stop the profiler.
```
ceph tell mon.ncn-s001 heap stop_profiler
```
A message stating mon.ncn-s001 stopped profiler will be returned.