netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Render buffer to output every time a number of chunks are allocated

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:35:25 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Render buffer to output every time a
 number of chunks are allocated

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:58:32 +0100
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> wrote:

> Eric reported that, with 10 million sockets, ss -emoi (about 1000 bytes
> output per socket) can easily lead to OOM (buffer would grow to 10GB of
> memory).
> 
> Limit the maximum size of the buffer to five chunks, 1M each. Render and
> flush buffers whenever we reach that.
> 
> This might make the resulting blocks slightly unaligned between them, with
> occasional loss of readability on lines occurring every 5k to 50k sockets
> approximately. Something like (from ss -tu):

Applied.
Interesting that with a small system the number of syscalls did not change