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the Omicron side of my RFD 413 refresh and an extension of #7448.
#7448 was resolved with an improvement to the VMM reservoir calculation but there are further steps for improvement here. in this thread Greg and I discussed the tradeoffs of being more precise with budget terms today. we settled on not being as prescriptive as we could, today, for a few reasons:
- we'd want to start the
control_plane_memory_earmark_mbsetting much higher than it is: in the range of 170 GiB for current systems - we'd want to set
vmm_reservoir_percentagemuch higher (90+%) - we'd really want to be able to tune the control plane earmark down once
sled-agentknows which control plane services are not on its sled - we really want to better understand long-uptime and peak usage behaviors of all services
the first two points here conflict with our relatively poor characterization of the last point.
- we can do better about measuring propolis (propolis-server: want a better accounting of memory propolis#890) and crucible (would be nice to report memory use through Oximeter crucible#1692) over time. this will give us more confidence about stability with a higher
vmm_reservoir_percentage - tune control plane earmark down from an initial conservative guess. this is only half thought-through; if we size the reservoir too aggressively and need to shrink it to move a new CRDB instance onto a sled, there's clearly some overhead there. over long uptimes, presumably this would contribute to fragmenting the VMM reservoir too.
- we should collect memory use of other control plane services to inform these calculations, but as with the Propolis and Crucible issues, collecting address space metrics currently induces stalls in the measured processes, so we wouldn't want to do this in an unattended regular manner.
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