From 1fb9a2d0bf2506ca6e5343cb340a441585ca1c07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 16:53:45 +0100 Subject: Limit how often GC happens by time. (#9902) Synapse can be quite memory intensive, and unless care is taken to tune the GC thresholds it can end up thrashing, causing noticable performance problems for large servers. We fix this by limiting how often we GC a given generation, regardless of current counts/thresholds. This does not help with the reverse problem where the thresholds are set too high, but that should only happen in situations where they've been manually configured. Adds a `gc_min_seconds_between` config option to override the defaults. Fixes #9890. --- synapse/app/generic_worker.py | 3 +++ synapse/app/homeserver.py | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'synapse/app') diff --git a/synapse/app/generic_worker.py b/synapse/app/generic_worker.py index 1a15ceee81..a3fe9a3f38 100644 --- a/synapse/app/generic_worker.py +++ b/synapse/app/generic_worker.py @@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ def start(config_options): synapse.events.USE_FROZEN_DICTS = config.use_frozen_dicts + if config.server.gc_seconds: + synapse.metrics.MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_GCS = config.server.gc_seconds + hs = GenericWorkerServer( config.server_name, config=config, diff --git a/synapse/app/homeserver.py b/synapse/app/homeserver.py index 8e78134bbe..6a823da10d 100644 --- a/synapse/app/homeserver.py +++ b/synapse/app/homeserver.py @@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ def setup(config_options): events.USE_FROZEN_DICTS = config.use_frozen_dicts + if config.server.gc_seconds: + synapse.metrics.MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_GCS = config.server.gc_seconds + hs = SynapseHomeServer( config.server_name, config=config, -- cgit 1.5.1