perf(server): enable jemalloc background purge thread + post-load RSS decay leg - #970
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The load grid only ever samples RSS under saturation; it cannot see whether freed pages return to the OS after traffic stops - exactly the axis of the jemalloc dirty-page ratchet (#968). run-decay.sh drives one saturating burst of large bodies (default c=64 for 60s, ~120KiB legal chat-completions requests standing in for inline-base64 multimodal payloads), then samples the idle gateway for 120s: VmRSS/VmHWM at ~2Hz plus smaps_rollup Pss/LazyFree at ~1Hz, because MADV_FREE'd pages stay in VmRSS until the kernel reclaims them and the corrected series rss - lazyfree is the residency an OOM limit actually enforces. A separate runner on purpose: the large bodies push VmHWM far above the baseline grid's, and sharing a process lifetime with run-baseline.sh would poison meta.json's rss_hwm_kb against every historical baseline. An invalid burst window (any failed request) is recorded but produces no decay curve, and a curve cut short by a dead gateway exits nonzero like any incomplete run.
jemalloc only advances a dirty page's decay clock on later allocator activity in the same arena, so after a burst of large-payload traffic an idle gateway keeps its burst-peak RSS indefinitely (#968). Measured with the new decay leg on the local probe: a 60s burst of ~120KiB bodies left +38MB (59% of the burst's RSS growth) resident and perfectly flat for the rest of the 120s idle window, with LazyFree=0 throughout - genuinely parked pages, not lazily-freed ones. Enable the background purge thread via a runtime mallctl write plus read-back (the write is a request, the read-back is the fact). Runtime on purpose: the equivalent opt.background_thread startup path carries an upstream warning that it may crash or deadlock during initialization. Failure is warn-only - foreground decay still bounds RSS under load; only idle-time reclamation is lost, and the warning makes that visible in the logs. The new dependency is target-gated to linux-gnu exactly like the allocator itself; background threads are supported on every target where we link jemalloc, which is why there is no fallback purge thread. tikv-jemalloc-ctl drags in the unmaintained paste proc-macro (RUSTSEC-2024-0436, build-time only), accepted until jemalloc-ctl drops it upstream. Ref: https://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html (background_thread, opt.dirty_decay_ms, opt.background_thread)
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a standalone large-payload memory-decay benchmark. It records RSS, HWM, PSS, and LazyFree during idle decay. The server enables and verifies jemalloc background purging on Linux GNU builds. ChangesMemory decay control and measurement
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change enables jemalloc background purging to reduce idle RSS, but the new benchmark can report success without corrected residency data and the allocator test does not validate the shipped helper while leaving global state changed. These bounded validation issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge; no direct request-path failure is indicated. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Runner as run-decay.sh
participant Gateway
participant Loadgen as loadgen
participant Decay as decay_leg
participant Proc as /proc
participant Results as results.jsonl
Runner->>Gateway: start and validate gateway
Runner->>Loadgen: start large-payload burst
Loadgen->>Gateway: send sustained requests
Runner->>Decay: execute decay measurement
Decay->>Proc: sample RSS, HWM, PSS, and LazyFree
Proc-->>Decay: return memory measurements
Decay->>Results: write decay records and summary
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Pull request overview
Enables jemalloc idle-time memory reclamation and adds an RSS-decay benchmark harness.
Changes:
- Enables and verifies jemalloc’s background purge thread.
- Adds the required allocator-control dependency.
- Adds post-load RSS, PSS, and LazyFree measurement tooling.
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crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs |
Enables purge thread and adds a runtime test. |
crates/aisix-server/Cargo.toml |
Adds jemalloc control dependency. |
Cargo.lock |
Locks the new dependency. |
bench/onthebench/run-decay.sh |
Adds the decay benchmark runner. |
bench/onthebench/lib.sh |
Implements decay sampling and summaries. |
bench/onthebench/README.md |
Documents the new benchmark leg. |
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395-400: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider extracting the peak-RSS sampler into a shared helper.
This subshell duplicates lines 263-268 of
measured_windowexactly. Two copies mean a sampler fix must be applied twice. A helper also lets you use the anchored^VmRSS:pattern that the newstatus_mem_kbuses, instead of the unanchored/VmRSS/.♻️ Proposed helper extraction
Add the helper near the other
/procreaders:start_rss_sampler() { # start_rss_sampler <pid> <outfile> -> sets SAMPLER_PID # /proc existence, not kill -0: a containerized target's pid belongs to # another user, where kill -0 reports EPERM and would read as death. ( max=0; while [ -d "/proc/$1" ]; do v=$(awk '/^VmRSS:/{print $2}' "/proc/$1/status" 2>/dev/null || true) v="${v:-0}" if [ "$v" -gt "$max" ]; then max="$v"; echo "$max" > "$2"; fi sleep 0.2 done ) & SAMPLER_PID=$! }Then call it from both sites:
- ( max=0; while [ -d "/proc/$GW_PID" ]; do - v=$(awk '/VmRSS/{print $2}' "/proc/$GW_PID/status" 2>/dev/null || true) - v="${v:-0}" - if [ "$v" -gt "$max" ]; then max="$v"; echo "$max" > "$rssfile"; fi - sleep 0.2 - done ) & SAMPLER_PID=$! + start_rss_sampler "$GW_PID" "$rssfile"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@bench/onthebench/lib.sh`:
- Around line 457-461: Update the decay_leg flow around the corrected and delta
calculations to set HARNESS_RC=1 whenever corrected cannot be computed,
including when smaps_mem_kb returns null values. Preserve the existing summary
emission, but ensure the incomplete run propagates a nonzero status through
run-decay.sh.
In `@crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 1923-1937: Update jemalloc_background_thread_enables_at_runtime to
save the initial background_thread value, disable it before exercising
enable_jemalloc_background_thread(), read the post-helper value, restore the
saved value, and finally assert the captured result is true. Ensure the test
invokes enable_jemalloc_background_thread() instead of writing true directly,
while preserving error handling for each mallctl operation.
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In `@bench/onthebench/lib.sh`:
- Around line 395-400: Extract the duplicated peak-RSS sampling loop from
measured_window and the current sampler into a shared start_rss_sampler helper
near the other /proc readers. Have it accept the target PID and output file, set
SAMPLER_PID, preserve the /proc existence check and sampling behavior, and use
the anchored ^VmRSS: pattern. Replace both inline subshells with calls to this
helper.
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| if [ "$rss" != null ] && [ "$lz" != null ]; then | ||
| corrected=$((rss - lz)) | ||
| [ -n "${RSS_IDLE:-}" ] && delta=$((corrected - RSS_IDLE)) | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Set HARNESS_RC=1 when the corrected series cannot be computed.
corrected stays null when smaps_mem_kb returns null null. That happens when /proc/<pid>/smaps_rollup is unreadable, for example when the target process belongs to another user, or when the kernel has no smaps_rollup. In that case decay_leg emits a decay_summary with final_corrected_kb: null and residual_vs_idle_kb: null, returns 0, and leaves HARNESS_RC unchanged. run-decay.sh then exits 0.
The comment on lines 448-449 names corrected residency as the gate input, and README.md states that an incomplete run exits nonzero. A run without the corrected series is incomplete, so it must not exit 0.
🛡️ Proposed gate on the missing corrected series
corrected=null; delta=null
if [ "$rss" != null ] && [ "$lz" != null ]; then
corrected=$((rss - lz))
[ -n "${RSS_IDLE:-}" ] && delta=$((corrected - RSS_IDLE))
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+ echo "WARNING: no corrected residency (rss=$rss lazyfree=$lz) - smaps_rollup unreadable or absent" >&2
+ HARNESS_RC=1
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| corrected=null; delta=null | |
| if [ "$rss" != null ] && [ "$lz" != null ]; then | |
| corrected=$((rss - lz)) | |
| [ -n "${RSS_IDLE:-}" ] && delta=$((corrected - RSS_IDLE)) | |
| fi | |
| corrected=null; delta=null | |
| if [ "$rss" != null ] && [ "$lz" != null ]; then | |
| corrected=$((rss - lz)) | |
| [ -n "${RSS_IDLE:-}" ] && delta=$((corrected - RSS_IDLE)) | |
| else | |
| echo "WARNING: no corrected residency (rss=$rss lazyfree=$lz) - smaps_rollup unreadable or absent" >&2 | |
| HARNESS_RC=1 | |
| fi |
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In `@bench/onthebench/lib.sh` around lines 457 - 461, Update the decay_leg flow
around the corrected and delta calculations to set HARNESS_RC=1 whenever
corrected cannot be computed, including when smaps_mem_kb returns null values.
Preserve the existing summary emission, but ensure the incomplete run propagates
a nonzero status through run-decay.sh.
| // The shipped-target contract for enable_jemalloc_background_thread(): | ||
| // the runtime mallctl enable must actually take effect here — an | ||
| // Ok(false) read-back would mean the #968 fix silently does nothing. | ||
| // The test binary links the same #[global_allocator] as the shipped one. | ||
| #[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_env = "gnu"))] | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn jemalloc_background_thread_enables_at_runtime() { | ||
| use tikv_jemalloc_ctl::background_thread; | ||
| background_thread::write(true).expect("mallctl write background_thread"); | ||
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| background_thread::read().expect("mallctl read background_thread"), | ||
| "background_thread did not enable on a linux-gnu target" | ||
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The tikv-jemalloc-ctl crate provides a type-safe Rust interface for jemalloc's mallctl introspection and control API [1][2]. For the background_thread interface, which manages jemalloc's internal background worker threads (used for asynchronous purging) [3][4], the crate offers a dedicated type: background_thread: This type represents the state of internal background worker threads [5]. - Read access: Use background_thread::read to retrieve the current boolean status (true if enabled, false if disabled) [5]. - Write access: Use background_thread::write(value: bool) to enable or disable background threads [5]. Enabling them creates threads on demand (up to the number of CPUs or active arenas), while disabling them terminates them synchronously [3][4]. - MIB support: For high-performance, repeated access, you can obtain a Management Information Base (MIB) via background_thread::mib to avoid string-parsing overhead [1][5]. The crate also provides max_background_threads for configuring the maximum number of background worker threads [1][6]. Both interfaces are part of the broader jemalloc mallctl namespace, which allows for tuning, heap dumping, and retrieving statistics [1][4]. When using these features, note that: - Background threads are only available on selected pthread-based platforms [3][4]. - After a fork(2) call, the background thread state in the child process is automatically disabled [3][4]. - Global allocator settings are managed via these mallctl keys, and repeatedly calling string-based operations incurs parsing overhead, which is why the MIB API is recommended for performance-critical code [1][7].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.rs/tikv-jemalloc-ctl/latest/tikv_jemalloc_ctl/
- 2: https://tikv.github.io/doc/tikv_jemalloc_ctl/index.html
- 3: https://man.archlinux.org/man/jemalloc.3.en.txt
- 4: https://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html
- 5: https://docs.rs/tikv-jemalloc-ctl/latest/tikv_jemalloc_ctl/struct.background_thread.html
- 6: https://docs.rs/tikv-jemalloc-ctl/latest/tikv_jemalloc_ctl/struct.max_background_threads_mib.html
- 7: https://docs.rs/crate/tikv-jemalloc-ctl/latest
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Restore jemalloc state and exercise the helper.
background_thread::write(true) changes process-global allocator state, and the test leaves it enabled. The test also bypasses enable_jemalloc_background_thread(), so it can pass while the helper is broken. Save the previous value, set background_thread to false, call the helper, read the result, restore the previous value, and then assert that the result is true.
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In `@crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs` around lines 1923 - 1937, Update
jemalloc_background_thread_enables_at_runtime to save the initial
background_thread value, disable it before exercising
enable_jemalloc_background_thread(), read the post-helper value, restore the
saved value, and finally assert the captured result is true. Ensure the test
invokes enable_jemalloc_background_thread() instead of writing true directly,
while preserving error handling for each mallctl operation.
Source: MCP tools
…tion Audit follow-up on #970: the test previously re-implemented the mallctl write/read pair inline, so a broken enable_jemalloc_background_thread body (or a deleted call) would stay green - exactly the silent-failure shape #968 fixes. The function now returns the write+read-back outcome (still logging it internally) and the test asserts Ok(true) from the delivered function itself.
Three audit follow-ups on #970: - The decay summary now compares corrected final residency against the corrected pre-burst anchor (rss0 - lazyfree0) instead of the uncorrected runner idle value, so an anchor that itself holds lazily-freed pages cannot understate the residual. - Knob validation uses indirect expansion instead of word-splitting a name:value list: BENCH_DECAY_CONC='64 128' is now refused up front rather than leaking non-numeric fields into the JSONL. - The final decay sample re-checks /proc/<pid>/stat starttime against the value captured at burst start, so a gateway pid reused during the 120s idle window is reported and the summary withheld, instead of sampling a stranger.
Closes #968.
Problem
We link jemalloc as the global allocator but never tune it. jemalloc only
advances a dirty page's decay clock on later allocator activity in the same
arena (the decay tick is sampled roughly once per thousand alloc/dalloc
events per thread), so once traffic stops, freed pages stop decaying: an idle
gateway keeps its burst-peak RSS indefinitely. For an AI gateway the driver
is payload size - multimodal inline-base64 bodies and replayed conversation
histories - so one tenant's burst can pin the process near peak forever. In a
container with a memory limit that is an OOM-kill risk our metrics cannot
explain.
Upstream references: https://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html
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background_thread,opt.dirty_decay_msdefault 10s,opt.muzzy_decay_msdefault 0, and the
opt.background_threadinitialization warning), plusjemalloc's TUNING.md: "unintended purging delay caused by application
inactivity is avoided with background threads".
Measurement (new harness leg)
bench/onthebench/run-decay.sh: one saturating burst of large bodies, then120s of idle sampling - VmRSS/VmHWM at ~2 Hz plus
smaps_rollupPss/LazyFreeat ~1 Hz (MADV_FREE'd pages stay in VmRSS until the kernel reclaims them; the
corrected series
rss - lazyfreeis what an OOM limit actually enforces). Aseparate runner on purpose, so the large bodies cannot poison
rss_hwm_kbinhistorical baseline metadata.
Local x86 probe, c=64 x 60s of ~120 KiB chat-completions bodies, 566,870
requests, fail=0, LazyFree=0 throughout (genuinely parked pages, not
lazily-freed ones):
Before: +38.2 MB (59% of the burst's RSS growth) stays resident indefinitely;
the curve is perfectly flat from t=31s on. After: RSS re-enters the idle+10%
band at t=17.5s and the residual at t=120s is 5.0 MB (7.6%).
Fix
Enable jemalloc's background purge thread at startup via a runtime mallctl
write plus read-back (the write is a request, the read-back is the fact),
placed after tracing init so the outcome is observable:
INFO aisix: jemalloc background purge thread enabled. Runtime rather thanmalloc_conf/build features on purpose: the equivalentopt.background_threadstartup path carries an upstream "may cause crash ordeadlock during initialization" warning. Failure is warn-only - foreground
decay still bounds RSS under load; only idle-time reclamation is lost.
No fallback purge thread: the allocator (and now the ctl dependency) is
target-gated to linux-gnu, and background threads are supported on every
target where we link jemalloc. No decay tuning: the defaults (10s dirty
decay) plus the background thread meet the acceptance bar above. A unit test
asserts the runtime enable takes effect on linux-gnu.
Throughput
Same probe, bracketing baselines (0:128 saturation point, 3 runs x 3 windows
per leg, all windows fail=0):
Candidate vs open +0.06%, vs pooled bracket +0.40%, bracket drift -0.67% -
all inside the probe's +-1.04% (2 sigma) noise band; the +-2% regression gate
passes with margin. The purge thread's CPU cost lands in idle time by design.
Prior art (three-plus mainstream implementations, per repo convention)
via the same runtime mallctl write with read-back verification, and adds a
fallback idle-purge thread only because its shipped release target is
static-musl, where jemalloc background threads are compiled out. We ship
jemalloc only on linux-gnu, so that fallback has no target to serve here -
the one deliberate divergence.
product-level memory-return policy: overload-triggered heap shrink,
opportunistic main-thread shrink, and an opt-in background release-rate
thread, all config-driven.
background thread, no decay tuning) - the idle-retention axis is simply
unaddressed there. Where the Rust ecosystem does flip
background_threadat runtime (a distributed KV store, a foundations library), it uses the
same mallctl mechanism, gated behind heap-profiling activation.
Dependency note
tikv-jemalloc-ctl 0.6(paired with the existing jemallocator 0.6) pulls inthe unmaintained
pasteproc-macro transitively: RUSTSEC-2024-0436,informational, build-time proc-macro only, no runtime code, no fixed release
upstream. Accepted until jemalloc-ctl drops it.
Evidence reproducibility
The curves and throughput numbers above were produced on an off-repo local
x86 screening field: a fork of this harness that patches exactly two things -
the rig identity assertions (
rig_sanity) and the core-split/port env. Itsmeasurement core (the appended
decay_leg/sampling/validity code and therunner flow) is the same as the committed one; the gateway-side listener
check is written in the fork's inline style. The committed, reproducible path
for these curves is
bench/onthebench/run-decay.shon the m7g rig; thescreening field exists so harness development and A/B screening do not occupy
the shared rig. Relative A/B conclusions (residual collapse, throughput
delta vs bracketing baselines) are the claim; absolute numbers are not
rig-comparable by design and are labeled as such by the harness itself.
Independent audit
A cold independent audit (correctness / reliability / security / leakage /
breaking changes / E2E coverage) returned no HIGH findings. Both MEDIUMs are
resolved: the unit test now drives the delivered enable function instead of
re-implementing the mallctl pair, and evidence reproducibility is documented
above. All three LOWs are fixed in follow-up commits: the decay summary
compares corrected-vs-corrected (final minus pre-burst anchor, both LazyFree
adjusted), knob validation refuses whitespace-embedded values via indirect
expansion, and the final decay sample re-checks
/proc/<pid>/statstarttimeso a pid reused during the idle window cannot be sampled as the gateway.
Coordination
This adds a background thread to the gateway process; the #967 x86 throughput
baseline should be re-anchored after this merges (recorded on the
coordination board).