Summary:
Currently, when we insert something into block cache, we say that the block cache capacity decreased by the size of the block. However, size of the block might be less than the actual memory used by this object. For example, 4.5KB block will actually use 8KB of memory. So even if we configure block cache to 10GB, our actually memory usage of block cache will be 20GB!
This problem showed up a lot in testing and just recently also showed up in MongoRocks production where we were using 30GB more memory than expected.
This diff will fix the problem. Instead of counting the block size, we will count memory used by the block. That way, a block cache configured to be 10GB will actually use only 10GB of memory.
I'm using non-portable function and I couldn't find info on portability on Google. However, it seems to work on Linux, which will cover majority of our use-cases.
Test Plan:
1. fill up mongo instance with 80GB of data
2. restart mongo with block cache size configured to 10GB
3. do a table scan in mongo
4. memory usage before the diff: 12GB. memory usage after the diff: 10.5GB
Reviewers: sdong, MarkCallaghan, rven, yhchiang
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D40635
Igor Canadi