[erlang-questions] ssl_connection process hibernation option

[Ingela Andin]

Hi!

We (the OTP team) would consider it.

Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB


2011/2/4 Jeroen Koops <koops.j@REDACTED>:
> Hi Ingela,
> Thanks for your response. Suppose I come up with a patch for this, do you
> think the OTP team would consider it for inclusion in an upcoming release?
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Ingela Andin <ingela.andin@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> We already put some effort into cleaning the state of the gen_fsm
>> processes holding the connection,
>> but some form of hibernation could be interesting too we will take
>> this into consideration.
>>
>> Regards Ingela Erlang/OTP team - Ericsson AB
>>
>> 2011/2/4 Jeroen Koops <koops.j@REDACTED>:
>> > I would very much appreciate this too.
>> >
>> > As a test, I inserted a proxy-module between the gen_fsm and
>> > ssl_connection
>> > callback, that changes all responses from the ssl_connection callback to
>> > include the 'hibernate' option (it's not a hack -- it's AOP!) and the
>> > savings are dramatic: before the change an SSL connection used around
>> > 350
>> > kB, after the change only around 600 bytes. If a system is maintaining
>> > thousands of SSL connections, this really adds up.
>> >
>> > If we could somehow get hibernation built in to the ssl application,
>> > that
>> > would be great.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ferenc Holzhauser <
>> > ferenc.holzhauser@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm using R14B01 new SSL to set up a lot of (not very active) client
>> >> connections.
>> >>
>> >> I have noticed that ssl_connection processes use a lot of memory
>> >> between
>> >> GC's.
>> >> A forced GC makes them small again until the next piece of received
>> >> data.
>> >>
>> >> This adds up to a significant memory usage (around 350-400 kB/session
>> >> on a
>> >> x64 system in my case) limiting the number of possible sessions.
>> >>
>> >> An option to hibernate this gen_fsm would decrease the average memory
>> >> usage
>> >> in this scenario.
>> >>
>> >> Would it be possible to introduce this option?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> Ferenc
>> >>
>> >
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