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Websocket with compression enabled causes high memory usage #5553

Open andrein opened 3 months ago

andrein commented 3 months ago

Observed behavior

When upgrading from nats 2.9.20 (using helm chart 0.19.17) to 2.10.16 (using helm chart 1.1.12) we noticed a 10x memory usage increase on our cluster.

We tracked this down to the new chart enabling websocket compression by default.

The cluster has ~60k clients, most of them connecting over websockets. Memory usage increased from ~3GB/node to 30+GB/node.

Expected behavior

Not sure how to answer this, I would've expected some impact, but 10x memory usage caught us by surprise.

Server and client version

2.9.20 and 2.10.16 are affected, probably others too.

Host environment

Cluster running on Kubernetes using containerd.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable websocket compression on a busy nats cluster
  2. Watch memory usage explode
andrein commented 3 months ago

Adding the profiles that helped us track down this issue: profiles.zip

Seems this is a know issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32371

derekcollison commented 3 months ago

What server version was used for the profiles?

andrein commented 3 months ago

Hi @derekcollison, the profiles were done on the nats:2.10.16-alpine image.

derekcollison commented 3 months ago

The server does not default to compression on for websockets but the helm chart does. We are going to change that, compression should be opt-in. /cc @caleblloyd

caleblloyd commented 3 months ago

PR was opened yesterday: https://github.com/nats-io/k8s/pull/912

andrein commented 3 months ago

I see that https://github.com/klauspost/compress is mentioned as an alternative in the upstream ticket, and it's already a dependency of nats-server. Would it be worth changing the implementation for the websocket compression?

caleblloyd commented 3 months ago

Released: https://github.com/nats-io/k8s/releases/tag/nats-1.2.0

Anything else to do here or we can close?