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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Sproul
c2f64f8216 Switch allocator to jemalloc (#3697)
## Proposed Changes

Another `tree-states` motivated PR, this adds `jemalloc` as the default allocator, with an option to use the system allocator by compiling with `FEATURES="" make`.

- [x] Metrics
- [x] Test on Windows
- [x] Test on macOS
- [x] Test with `musl`
- [x] Metrics dashboard on `lighthouse-metrics` (https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse-metrics/pull/37)


Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
2023-01-25 14:21:54 +01:00
Michael Sproul
4d0122444b Update and consolidate dependencies (#3136)
## Proposed Changes

I did some gardening 🌳 in our dependency tree:

- Remove duplicate versions of `warp` (git vs patch)
- Remove duplicate versions of lots of small deps: `cpufeatures`, `ethabi`, `ethereum-types`, `bitvec`, `nix`, `libsecp256k1`.
- Update MDBX (should resolve #3028). I tested and Lighthouse compiles on Windows 11 now.
- Restore `psutil` back to upstream
- Make some progress updating everything to rand 0.8. There are a few crates stuck on 0.7.

Hopefully this puts us on a better footing for future `cargo audit` issues, and improves compile times slightly.

## Additional Info

Some crates are held back by issues with `zeroize`. libp2p-noise depends on [`chacha20poly1305`](https://crates.io/crates/chacha20poly1305) which depends on zeroize < v1.5, and we can only have one version of zeroize because it's post 1.0 (see https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/6584). The latest version of `zeroize` is v1.5.4, which is used by the new versions of many other crates (e.g. `num-bigint-dig`). Once a new version of chacha20poly1305 is released we can update libp2p-noise and upgrade everything to the latest `zeroize` version.

I've also opened a PR to `blst` related to zeroize: https://github.com/supranational/blst/pull/111
2022-04-04 00:26:16 +00:00
Michael Sproul
5e1f8a8480 Update to Rust 1.59 and 2021 edition (#3038)
## Proposed Changes

Lots of lint updates related to `flat_map`, `unwrap_or_else` and string patterns. I did a little more creative refactoring in the op pool, but otherwise followed Clippy's suggestions.

## Additional Info

We need this PR to unblock CI.
2022-02-25 00:10:17 +00:00
Michael Sproul
10dac51c6f Enable mallinfo2 behind feature flag (#2864)
## Proposed Changes

Add `mallinfo2` behind a feature flag so that we can get accurate memory metrics during debugging. It can be enabled when building Lighthouse like so (so long as the platform supports it):

```
cargo install --path lighthouse --features "malloc_utils/mallinfo2"
```
2021-12-15 20:39:50 +00:00
Paul Hauner
b383836418 Modify Malloc Tuning (#2398)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

I've noticed some of the SigP Prater nodes struggling on v1.4.0-rc.0. I suspect this is due to the changes in #2296. Specifically, the trade-off which lowered the memory footprint whilst increasing runtime on some functions.

Presently, this PR is documenting my testing on Prater.

## Additional Info

NA
2021-06-09 02:30:06 +00:00
Paul Hauner
456b313665 Tune GNU malloc (#2299)
## Issue Addressed

NA

## Proposed Changes

Modify the configuration of [GNU malloc](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/The-GNU-Allocator.html) to reduce memory footprint.

- Set `M_ARENA_MAX` to 4.
    - This reduces memory fragmentation at the cost of contention between threads.
- Set `M_MMAP_THRESHOLD` to 2mb
    - This means that any allocation >= 2mb is allocated via an anonymous mmap, instead of on the heap/arena. This reduces memory fragmentation since we don't need to keep growing the heap to find big contiguous slabs of free memory.
- ~~Run `malloc_trim` every 60 seconds.~~
    - ~~This shaves unused memory from the top of the heap, preventing the heap from constantly growing.~~
    - Removed, see: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/2299#issuecomment-825322646

*Note: this only provides memory savings on the Linux (glibc) platform.*
    
## Additional Info

I'm going to close #2288 in favor of this for the following reasons:

- I've managed to get the memory footprint *smaller* here than with jemalloc.
- This PR seems to be less of a dramatic change than bringing in the jemalloc dep.
- The changes in this PR are strictly runtime changes, so we can create CLI flags which disable them completely. Since this change is wide-reaching and complex, it's nice to have an easy "escape hatch" if there are undesired consequences.

## TODO

- [x] Allow configuration via CLI flags
- [x] Test on Mac
- [x] Test on RasPi.
- [x] Determine if GNU malloc is present?
    - I'm not quite sure how to detect for glibc.. This issue suggests we can't really: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/33244
- [x] Make a clear argument regarding the affect of this on CPU utilization.
- [x] Test with higher `M_ARENA_MAX` values.
- [x] Test with longer trim intervals
- [x] Add some stats about memory savings
- [x] Remove `malloc_trim` calls & code
2021-05-28 05:59:45 +00:00