fix(memory): bound maxmemory by real footprint, not allocator accounting - #478
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A live instance swapped itself to a standstill while believing it was at 22% of its memory budget. maxmemory was 19.2GB, used_memory read 4.21GB, and the OS was charging the process 9.7GB — 9.6GB of which it had pushed to swap. Eviction never fired, disk-offload never spilled (spill_batches_flushed:0), and every key access then faulted a page back from disk: 76M faults and 53GB of reads over 25 hours. Three defects, one cause — INFO and the eviction gate both measured a figure that is not what the machine pays. 1. `used_memory_rss` was fed by `get_rss_bytes()`, which on macOS returns `resident_size` — only pages currently in RAM. A process whose heap has been swapped out therefore reports a SMALL rss exactly when it is costing the most. The instance published `used_memory:4.21G` alongside `used_memory_rss:0.4G`, which reads as excellent efficiency and was in fact a machine about to thrash. It now reports `phys_footprint`, which counts swapped pages, falling back to the old reading where unavailable. 2. Nothing exposed the gap. `mem_fragmentation_ratio` is added under Redis's own field name so existing dashboards pick it up untranslated. 3. `evict_to_budget` compared allocator accounting against maxmemory, so the cap bounded a number rather than the machine. The budget is now divided by the measured footprint ratio: at the observed 2.3x, a 19.2GB maxmemory starts evicting once accounted memory passes ~8.3GB, holding REAL footprint near what the operator configured. The ratio is clamped to [1.0, 8.0] and returns 1.0 when unmeasurable. It only ever shrinks a budget, so an unknown must stay neutral — and an absurd reading (bad task_info, huge transient) must not collapse the budget and evict the whole keyspace. Both are tested. No new unsafe block: the macOS reader reuses the Mach ABI and SAFETY contract already established in this module, whose TASK_VM_INFO path already read phys_footprint at offset 16 but labelled it rss and was unreachable because MACH_TASK_BASIC_INFO succeeds first. Note this is NOT recoverable by restarting: a fresh heap returned to the same 2.3x ratio and ~89K mappings within 30 minutes, so the overhead is steady state for this dataset shape, not drift. Refs #475. Tested: 4 guard tests green; live server reports used_memory_rss from phys_footprint with the field emitted exactly once. author: Tin Dang
The eviction budget scaling divided the WHOLE-PROCESS footprint by a SINGLE shard's `estimated_memory()`. At `--shards N` that inflates the ratio by roughly N, so the budget shrinks N times too far and the instance evicts far more than the operator asked for. On the 1-shard box this was measured on it happened to be correct, which is exactly how it would have shipped unnoticed. Five eviction budget tests caught it — they are the reason this is a two-line fix rather than a production incident on a multi-shard deployment. The denominator is now `logical_used_memory_bytes()`, the same instance-wide figure INFO reports, so the ratio means "how far the whole process exceeds what the whole instance accounts for" on any shard count. Also adds `maxmemory` to INFO, read from the same published atomic the eviction gate enforces, so INFO can never advertise a cap different from the one actually applied. Tested: full lib green (4592 passed), including a regression test asserting a per-shard-sized denominator produces a larger ratio than an instance-wide one — the shape of the original mistake. Refs #475. author: Tin Dang
`dispatch_read` — the hot read path — calls `string::get_readonly`, which had no hit/miss recording at all. The recorders lived only in `string::get`, which `dispatch_read` never calls. So `keyspace_hits` and `keyspace_misses` did not move for a plain GET. Also treats a cold-tier hit as a HIT rather than falling through to the miss branch: the key existed, it was just not resident. Counting it as a miss would make any disk-offload deployment read as permanently missing on a hit-rate dashboard. This fixes the INLINE path only. RESP-array GET — what every real client sends — still does not increment, because those commands are deferred into the batch dispatch route which reaches neither function. Verified on one connection against a live server: RESP GET k / GET nope -> keyspace_hits:0 keyspace_misses:0 INLINE GET k / GET nope -> keyspace_hits:1 keyspace_misses:1 So both fields still read zero for real traffic. `io10` stays red and the test has NOT been weakened to match. Filed separately; the INFO fields these feed are therefore not yet trustworthy. author: Tin Dang
The recorders feed Prometheus behind METRICS_INITIALIZED, which is false unless the admin port is up — so the hit/miss counters this branch records into would have read zero on any server nobody scraped. Ungated atomics alongside, incremented in the same recorder functions. author: Tin Dang
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In `@src/admin/metrics_setup.rs`:
- Around line 1811-1948: Split src/admin/metrics_setup.rs into focused Rust
modules so the file is under 1500 lines, moving the INFO-counter accessors and
platform-footprint implementation with their related tests while preserving
public APIs, imports, and behavior. Use the existing symbols such as
keyspace_hits, sample_ops_per_sec, footprint_ratio, and process_footprint_bytes
to keep the extracted module boundaries clear.
- Around line 1814-1852: Add the metrics exposed by keyspace_hits,
keyspace_misses, expired_keys, evicted_keys, total_net_input_bytes,
total_net_output_bytes, and instantaneous_ops_per_sec to the # Stats section
produced by connection::info, using the existing accessors and matching the
established INFO field names and formatting.
- Around line 1273-1300: Update process_footprint_bytes to read phys_footprint
at the correct Darwin offset by using a #[repr(C)] task_vm_info representation
with the appropriate version-specific count, and add a macOS test using distinct
field values. Add the new counters to the # Stats INFO section and wire
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Emit the new counters from INFO.
These accessors have no consumer in the supplied src/command/connection.rs::info output. INFO therefore still omits keyspace_hits, keyspace_misses, expired_keys, evicted_keys, network-byte totals, and instantaneous_ops_per_sec.
Add the fields to the # Stats section.
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In `@src/admin/metrics_setup.rs` around lines 1814 - 1852, Add the metrics exposed
by keyspace_hits, keyspace_misses, expired_keys, evicted_keys,
total_net_input_bytes, total_net_output_bytes, and instantaneous_ops_per_sec to
the # Stats section produced by connection::info, using the existing accessors
and matching the established INFO field names and formatting.
…head Two defects in the footprint-aware eviction budget, both of which made it either inert or actively harmful. 1. `process_footprint_bytes()` read offset 16 of `task_vm_info_data_t`, which is `resident_size` — the exact field the function exists to avoid. `phys_footprint` is at offset 144. Verified empirically rather than from the header: mapping a clean 800 MB file moves offset 16 by 840 MB and leaves offset 144 flat, which is precisely how the two fields differ (footprint excludes clean file pages). On the live :6381 instance the difference is not academic — RSS 91 MB against a 10 GB footprint — so the ratio computed ~1.0 and the correction did nothing on the swapped-out process it was written for. The read is now guarded on the kernel's returned count, since a shorter reply predates the field and would hand back uninitialised stack bytes. 2. The ratio fired on datasets too small to measure. A process costs the OS tens of MB before it holds a key, so dividing that FIXED cost by a small dataset yields a large meaningless ratio. CI caught it: `oom_bypass_closure::test_case_e_cross_db_copy_oom` shrank a 2 MB budget to nothing and OOM-rejected writes that must succeed (281 of 300 OK, then 173, then 95 as the harness's own RSS grew). The correction is now inert below 64 MiB of accounted memory and prices only the MARGINAL footprint over a baseline captured at startup, before persistence recovery puts keys in the heap. Also: - `mem_fragmentation_ratio` published the eviction divisor — floored, baseline-subtracted, clamped — under Redis's field name. It is now the raw quotient of the two fields printed beside it, so INFO cannot disagree with itself. - Footprint measurement moved to `src/admin/footprint.rs`, re-exported from `metrics_setup` so call sites are unchanged. `metrics_setup.rs` had reached 2137 lines against the 1500-line ceiling; it is 1822 now (main was already 1717 — the remaining overage is pre-existing and filed separately rather than folded into this fix). Tests: `footprint_is_phys_footprint_not_resident_size` fails on the old offset with "phys_footprint grew 67108864 for a CLEAN FILE-BACKED mapping" and passes on 144; `ratio_is_inert_below_the_noise_floor` and `ratio_excludes_the_startup_baseline` cover defect 2, with `ratio_reproduces_the_measured_live_gap` pinning the case that must still fire (4.21 GB accounted in a 9.7 GB footprint => 2.28x). Refs: CI run 31683128246 author: Tin Dang
The [Unreleased] Fixed section carries the operator-visible statement of the bug: a cap that bounded an accounting figure while the machine paid 2.3x that in real memory and reclaimed it by swapping. author: Tin Dang
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…reader The Windows leg of the full matrix failed io20, 3/3 tries — deterministic, not a flake. Windows has no `process_footprint_bytes` implementation (the `cfg(not(any(linux, macos)))` arm returns 0), so the chore's `if footprint > 0` guard skipped the refresh entirely and the liveness counter never left 0. The correction being permanently neutral on Windows is CORRECT — there is nothing to measure, and 1.0 is the documented inert value. What was wrong is that the guard made "this platform cannot measure" indistinguishable from "this chore is not wired", which are different failures with different fixes, and the second is the one that would silently restore the swap-death bug #478 fixed. So the chore now ticks unconditionally. A 0 footprint is still refused as a sample (a failed read cannot erase a good one) and still resolves the correction to 1.0; only the counter advances. `maxmemory_footprint_samples` therefore counts chore TICKS on every platform, and is read together with `maxmemory_footprint_correction` to tell inert from active. Verified by simulating the Windows condition locally — forcing the macOS reader to return 0: * with the guard restored: io20 FAILS, "stuck at 0 after 15s", reproducing the Windows failure exactly * without it: io20 passes so the simulation is faithful and the fix is the thing that closes it. Refs: #478 author: Tin Dang
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…, not per write (EC14) (#510) * perf(memory): sample the maxmemory footprint correction once a second, not per write The real-footprint correction added in #478 was computed inside `evict_to_budget`, which runs on the write path. Every SET therefore paid: * `open`/`read`/`close` on /proc/self/statm — three syscalls — to read the process footprint, and * `logical_used_memory_bytes()`, which sums four atomics per shard and takes a read lock on the GLOBAL replication state, on a path whose design rule is "per-shard locks only, no global locks on the write path". Neither was skippable in practice. The `maxmemory == 0` early return never fires because Moon auto-sets maxmemory to 75% of RAM. The correction's own 64 MB noise-floor guard sat INSIDE `ratio_from` with the expensive reader passed as its argument — Rust evaluates arguments eagerly, so the syscalls ran to completion and only then were judged unnecessary. A guard the caller has already paid to get past is not a guard. Measured on the moon-dev VM, v0.8.5 vs the integrated tip, interleaved legs and median-of-5: config base med head med delta noise floor get_c1_P1 176,991 180,343 +1.9% 39.2% neutral get_c8_P16 2,439,024 2,298,851 -5.7% 12.5% neutral set_c1_P1 159,236 134,048 -15.8% 11.8% REGRESSION set_c8_P16 1,360,544 584,795 -57.0% 7.1% REGRESSION Reads neutral, writes collapsing, which is the shape of a cost paid only by writers. `git bisect` over that benchmark named 527def2 (#478) directly. The fix moves the measurement to the shard-0 chore that was ALREADY reading /proc/self/statm once a second for the RSS gauge — and already carried a comment explaining why it must not be read more often. That chore now republishes the whole correction; the write path reads one relaxed atomic. On Linux the footprint is that same statm read, so it is reused rather than paid for twice; on macOS `phys_footprint` is a genuinely different field (resident_size under-reports a swapped-out process by ~20x) and gets its own read. The correction's VALUE is unchanged. A divisor applied to a GB-scale budget does not care about a second of staleness, and it stays neutral (1.00) until the first sample lands, so an unmeasured process is never over-evicted. Two INFO fields make the mechanism observable: maxmemory_footprint_correction the divisor actually applied, so an operator can tell a cap being honoured from one being silently tightened maxmemory_footprint_samples the sampler's liveness counter The counter is not decoration. The ratio reads 1.00 on any instance below the noise floor whether the sampler is healthy or wedged, and the chore lives in a shard loop with separate monoio and tokio arms — a correction wired on only one runtime would restore the swap-death bug #478 fixed, with nothing to show for it in INFO, in a unit test, or in a crash. Tests, each verified to FAIL against the code it guards: * `ratio_reads_the_published_sample_never_the_platform` — 1000 calls, zero platform reads, and the ratio still computed from the sample (a constant 1.0 would mean the correction was disabled rather than made cheap). Fails on the pre-fix body. * `below_the_floor_costs_nothing_at_all` — the eager-argument bug specifically. Fails on the pre-fix body. * `io20_footprint_correction_sampler_advances` — end-to-end against a live server, so it runs on whichever runtime the binary was built for. Verified to fail when the chore call is removed; green on both monoio and tokio. Refs: #478 author: Tin Dang * fix(memory): tick the footprint chore on platforms with no footprint reader The Windows leg of the full matrix failed io20, 3/3 tries — deterministic, not a flake. Windows has no `process_footprint_bytes` implementation (the `cfg(not(any(linux, macos)))` arm returns 0), so the chore's `if footprint > 0` guard skipped the refresh entirely and the liveness counter never left 0. The correction being permanently neutral on Windows is CORRECT — there is nothing to measure, and 1.0 is the documented inert value. What was wrong is that the guard made "this platform cannot measure" indistinguishable from "this chore is not wired", which are different failures with different fixes, and the second is the one that would silently restore the swap-death bug #478 fixed. So the chore now ticks unconditionally. A 0 footprint is still refused as a sample (a failed read cannot erase a good one) and still resolves the correction to 1.0; only the counter advances. `maxmemory_footprint_samples` therefore counts chore TICKS on every platform, and is read together with `maxmemory_footprint_correction` to tell inert from active. Verified by simulating the Windows condition locally — forcing the macOS reader to return 0: * with the guard restored: io20 FAILS, "stuck at 0 after 15s", reproducing the Windows failure exactly * without it: io20 passes so the simulation is faithful and the fix is the thing that closes it. Refs: #478 author: Tin Dang
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Fixes the mechanism behind a live instance that swapped itself to a standstill while believing it was at 22% of its memory budget. Refs #475.
What happened
maxmemorywas 19.2GB,used_memoryread 4.21GB, and the OS was charging the process 9.7GB — 9.6GB of it pushed to swap. Eviction never fired, disk-offload never spilled (spill_batches_flushed:0), and every key access then faulted a page back from disk: 76M faults and 53GB of reads over 25 hours.INFO and the eviction gate both measured a figure that is not what the machine pays.
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used_memory_rsswas lying. It was fed byget_rss_bytes(), which on macOS returnsresident_size— only pages currently in RAM. A process whose heap has been swapped out therefore reports a small rss exactly when it costs the most. The instance published:while 9.9GB sat in swap. Now sourced from
phys_footprint, which counts swapped pages, falling back to the old reading where unavailable.2. Nothing exposed the gap. Adds
mem_fragmentation_ratiounder Redis's own field name so existing dashboards read it untranslated, plusmaxmemoryfrom the same published atomic the eviction gate enforces — so INFO can never advertise a cap different from the one applied.3.
evict_to_budgetbounded a number, not the machine. The budget is now divided by the measured footprint ratio. At the observed 2.3x, a 19.2GBmaxmemorystarts evicting once accounted memory passes ~8.3GB, holding real footprint near what the operator configured.Safety of the ratio
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[1.0, 8.0], and returns 1.0 when unmeasurable. It only ever shrinks a budget, so an unknown must stay neutral, and an absurd reading (badtask_info, huge transient) must not collapse the budget and evict the whole keyspace. Both are tested.A bug in the first version is worth calling out: it divided whole-process footprint by a single shard's
estimated_memory(), which at--shards Ninflates the ratio ~N and over-evicts. It looked correct on the 1-shard box it was measured on. Five existing eviction tests caught it; the denominator is nowlogical_used_memory_bytes(), with a regression test asserting the shape of the mistake.No new unsafe
The macOS reader reuses the Mach ABI and SAFETY contract already established in
metrics_setup, whoseTASK_VM_INFOpath already readphys_footprintat offset 16 but labelled itrssand was unreachable becauseMACH_TASK_BASIC_INFOsucceeds first.Also included
string::get_readonly— the functiondispatch_readactually calls — had no hit/miss recording at all. Fixed, and a cold-tier hit now counts as a hit rather than a miss (otherwise a disk-offload deployment reads as permanently missing). This does not fully fix those counters: RESP-array GET is deferred into a batch route that reaches no recorder, so both fields still read zero for real clients. Filed as #477; not papered over here.Not a restart-recoverable problem
A fresh heap returned to the same 2.3x ratio and ~89K mappings within 30 minutes, so this is steady-state overhead for the dataset shape, not drift. Restarting is not a mitigation — which is why the cap has to be correct.
Tested
Full lib green, 4583 passed, 0 failed. Verified live:
used_memory_rssreportsphys_footprint, emitted exactly once, ratio guard returns 1.00 on an empty server.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
INFOmetrics with keyspace activity, expirations, evictions, rejected connections, network traffic, operations per second, and process memory details.Bug Fixes
GETnow accurately records hits and misses, including cold-storage results.