Formalize Memory Monitoring

by extracting the interval and threshold into configuration options.

Related to f670b07e.

cmd/poseidon/main.go

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ func shutdownSentry() {
 }
 
 func initProfiling(options config.Profiling) (cancel func()) {
-	if options.Enabled {
+	if options.CPUEnabled {
-		profile, err := os.Create(options.File)
+		profile, err := os.Create(options.CPUFile)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.WithError(err).Error("Error while opening the profile file")
 		}
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func initProfiling(options config.Profiling) (cancel func()) {
 		}
 
 		cancel = func() {
-			if options.Enabled {
+			if options.CPUEnabled {
 				log.Debug("Stopping CPU profiler")
 				pprof.StopCPUProfile()
 				if err := profile.Close(); err != nil {
@@ -112,18 +112,20 @@ func initProfiling(options config.Profiling) (cancel func()) {
 }
 
 // watchMemoryAndAlert monitors the memory usage of Poseidon and sends an alert if it exceeds a threshold.
-func watchMemoryAndAlert() {
+func watchMemoryAndAlert(options config.Profiling) {
-	// We assume that Poseidon usually takes about 50-300 MB of memory. Therefore, we specify the threshold of 1 GB.
+	if options.MemoryInterval == 0 {
-	// Improve: Make this value dynamic or relative.
+		return
-	const threshold = 1 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000
+	}
-	const interval = 5 * time.Second
 
+	var exceeded bool
 	for {
 		var stats runtime.MemStats
 		runtime.ReadMemStats(&stats)
 		log.WithField("heap", stats.HeapAlloc).Trace("Current Memory Usage")
 
-		if stats.HeapAlloc >= threshold {
+		const megabytesToBytes = 1000 * 1000
+		if !exceeded && stats.HeapAlloc >= uint64(options.MemoryThreshold)*megabytesToBytes {
+			exceeded = true
 			log.WithField("heap", stats.HeapAlloc).Warn("Memory Threshold exceeded")
 
 			err := pprof.Lookup("heap").WriteTo(os.Stderr, 1)
@@ -135,10 +137,13 @@ func watchMemoryAndAlert() {
 			if err != nil {
 				log.WithError(err).Warn("Failed to log the goroutines")
 			}
+		} else if exceeded {
+			exceeded = false
+			log.WithField("heap", stats.HeapAlloc).Info("Memory Threshold no longer exceeded")
 		}
 
 		select {
-		case <-time.After(interval):
+		case <-time.After(time.Duration(options.MemoryInterval) * time.Millisecond):
 			continue
 		case <-context.Background().Done():
 			return
@@ -270,13 +275,13 @@ func main() {
 		log.WithError(err).Warn("Could not initialize configuration")
 	}
 	logging.InitializeLogging(config.Config.Logger.Level, config.Config.Logger.Formatter)
-	initSentry(&config.Config.Sentry, config.Config.Profiling.Enabled)
+	initSentry(&config.Config.Sentry, config.Config.Profiling.CPUEnabled)
 
 	cancelInflux := monitoring.InitializeInfluxDB(&config.Config.InfluxDB)
 	defer cancelInflux()
 
 	stopProfiling := initProfiling(config.Config.Profiling)
-	go watchMemoryAndAlert()
+	go watchMemoryAndAlert(config.Config.Profiling)
 
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	server := initServer(ctx)

configuration.example.yaml

@@ -64,10 +64,15 @@ logger:
 # Configuration of the embedded profiler
 profiling:
   # Enables the runtime profiler
-  enabled: false
+  cpuenabled: false
   # The file to which the profile is written to.
   # The default location `cmd/poseidon/default.pgo` will be picked up during the build process to create a profile-guided build.
-  file: cmd/poseidon/default.pgo
+  cpufile: cmd/poseidon/default.pgo
+  # If set, a memory watchdog will be started that monitors the memory usage of Poseidon and alerts if the threshold is exceeded.
+  # The value defines the interval in milliseconds in which the memory usage is checked.
+  memoryinterval: 30_000
+  # The Threshold in MB of memory usage at which Poseidon will start alerting.
+  memorythreshold: 1_000
 
 # Configuration of the sentry logging
 sentry:

internal/config/config.go

@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ var (
 			Level:     "INFO",
 			Formatter: dto.FormatterText,
 		},
+		Profiling: Profiling{
+			MemoryThreshold: 1_000,
+		},
 		Sentry: sentry.ClientOptions{
 			AttachStacktrace: true,
 		},
@@ -130,8 +133,10 @@ type Logger struct {
 
 // Profiling configures the usage of a runtime profiler to create optimized binaries.
 type Profiling struct {
-	Enabled bool
+	CPUEnabled      bool
-	File    string
+	CPUFile         string
+	MemoryInterval  uint
+	MemoryThreshold uint
 }
 
 // InfluxDB configures the usage of an Influx db monitoring.