I've started using ravenDb not too long ago, but I've noticed, that after installation, the ravenDb process is evenly getting higher memory usage (increasing around 0.1MB in a second).
If I leave my computer for a longer period of time - the process builds up with a high usage of memory.
I am not hosting any databases at all (clean reinstall), just using plain ravenDb installation as a windows service.
What could be causing this and how can I avoid it?
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I've got an app service plan with 14gb of memory - it should be plenty for my application's needs. There are two application services running on it, each identical - the private memory consumption of these hovers around 1gb but can spike to 4gb during periods of high usage. One app has a heavier usage pattern than the other.
Lately, during periods of high usage, I've noticed that the heavily used service can become unresponsive, and memory usage stays at 100% in the App Service Plan.
The high traffic service is using 4gb of private memory and starting to massively slow down. When I head over to the /scm.../ProcessExplorer/ page, I can see that the low traffic service has 1gb private memory used and 10gb of 'Working Set'.
As I understand it, on a single machine at least, the working set should be freed up when that memory is needed on another process. Does this happen naturally when two App Services share a single Plan?
It looks to me like the working set on the low-traffic instance is not being freed up to supply the needs of the high-traffic App Service.
If this is indeed the case, the simple fix is to move them to separate App Service Plans, each with 7gb of memory. However this seems like it might potentially be just shifting the problem around - has anyone else noticed similar issues with multiple Apps on a single App Service Plan? As far as I understand it, these shouldn't interfere with one another to the extent that they all need to be separated. Or have I got the wrong diagnosis?
In some high memory-consumption scenarios, your app might truly require more computing resources. In that case, consider scaling to a higher service tier so the application gets all the resources it needs. Other times, a bug in the code might cause a memory leak. A coding practice also might increase memory consumption. Getting insight into what's triggering high memory consumption is a two-part process. First, create a process dump, and then analyze the process dump. Crash Diagnoser from the Azure Site Extension Gallery can efficiently perform both these steps. For more information.
refer Capture and analyze a dump file for intermittent high memory for Web Apps.
In the end we solved this one via mitigation, rather than getting to the root cause.
We found a mitigation strategy to our previous memory issues several months ago, which was just to restart the server each night using a powershell script. This seems to prevent the memory just building up over time, and only costs us a few seconds of downtime. Our system doesn't have much overnight traffic as our users are all based in the same geographic location.
However we recently found that the overnight restart was reporting 'success' but actually failing each night due to expired credentials. Which meant that the memory issues we were having in the question I posted were actually exacerbated by server uptimes of several weeks. Restoring the overnight restart resolved the memory issues we were seeing, and we certainly don't see our system ever using 10gb+ again.
We'll investigate the memory issues if they rear their heads again. KetanChawda-MSFT's suggestion of using memory dumps to analyse the memory usage will be employed for this investigation when it's needed.
I am currently investigating the feasibility of an architecture where we will have potentially thousands of AppPools and therefore Worker Processes for each of our micro-services running in IIS (10+). (It is one of a few options)
I understand the overhead of each worker process. Currently my estimation would be that each worker is going to be about 20-30MB. Server resourcing should not be too much of an issue as we are likely going to be provisioning servers with 32-64GB of RAM. To add to this not all workers would be active at all times so we should gain headroom when AppPools are idle.
My question: Can IIS handle this many AppPools/Worker processes?
I don't see a reason it shouldn't given sufficient resources however have not been able to find any documentation around it after some brief searching.
So I'll add some answers to my own question here as I did a little bit of testing.
Server
Intel Xeon - X5550
32GB Ram
Windows Server 2012 R2
Application
Created a barebones WebAPI only ASP.Net application with a single controller and action.
When installed in IIS this is the observed memory footprint.
Memory (Idle) = ~ 5172 K
Memory (Running) = ~26 000 K
Prep
I created some powershell scripts (sorry can't share it as they leverage our closed source deployment scripts) to:
Create - Unique folder for each application to prevent possible resource sharing
Launch - Makes a web request
Cleanup - Deletes all applications, pools and folders
Recycle - Unloads the application, sets it back to Idle state
Test
Below are my results observed from PerfMon
As you will note I could not get all 1000 running at once. I ran into a few things:
Trying to fire a call to all 1000 so they all running simultaneously is not as easy as it sounds.
ASP.Net temporary internet files is on the C:\ which ran out of space
Things began running slowly since memory was being paged.
Conclusion
It seems that IIS really has no limit on the number of processes. The core constraint is the resourcing on the machine.
What is interesting is it is unlikely all applications would be running simulationoesly and so one can take advantage of the fact that IIS will provision mem
I have recently installed NewRelic server monitoring to our Azure web role. The role is a small instance. We are on OSv4 (Win 2012 R2) using 2.2 Service Runtime.
Looking at memory usage I notice that WallSHost.exe (which I understand to be Azure related) it reported as consuming 219Mb (down from a peak of 250Mb) via NewRelic. Is that a lot of memory for it? Can I reduce it? Just seemed like a lot to be taking up.
CPU usage seems to aperiodically spike at about 4% for it. However CPU isn't really an issue as my instance rarely goes above 50%
First off, why do you care how much memory a process is taking up? All of that memory will be paged out to disk, and assuming it isn't being paged back in regularly then all it does is take up page file size which is usually irrelevant.
The WaIISHost process runs your role entry point code (OnStart, Run, StatusCheck, Changing, etc) and is typically implemented in WebRole.cs. If you want to reduce the memory size of this process then you can reduce the amount of memory being loaded by your role entry point code.
See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2011/05/05/windows-azure-role-architecture.aspx for more information about the WaIISHost.exe process and what it does.
I have a web site and I am using iis as my web server. I noticed that on production server, the cpu reaches 95% usage pretty fast with very little users. this behaviour I don't see on my developement server. I am using visual studio to develop and iis as my local web server as well.
How much big traffic you have on production comparing to development server? How their parameters compare? Before starting a deep analysis of the application itself, I would identify all the infrastructure and environmental differences. Sometime such problems happens because of some other software, like antivirus software running in the background...
Nevertheless, because it sounds rather as a application problem, I would first check Event Viewer for errors. Then I would start from monitoring a few Performance Counters to correlate % Processor Time counter with Current Connections, Available Memory, # of Exceps Thrown / sec, % Time in GC and so on. This kind of behavior usually has a reason from the list:
excessive loops usage due to some logic error, like calling the same service again and again, trying to load or parse malfunctioned file etc. This can be analyzed with dump analysis (look below).
high CPU usage due to Garbage Collector - when memory usage is extensive (or there is a memory leak even) GC may start to consume more and more CPU fighting with the memory shortage. You will see this with memory-related performance counters.
a considerable amount of exceptions thrown (for example due to some environmental problems like network unavailability, production data difference) can also consume a lot of CPU. Event Viewer and exception-related performance counters (as they can be handled silently by your application) should be a indicator here.
To further analyze your application, I suggest to make a full memory dump during high CPU usage. You can do that with Debug Diag tool. Please refer this IIS troubleshooting guide for details.
I have a web application that is eventually running out of memory when it runs on IIS 7 Windows Server 2008. When I attempt to run a memory profiler against the application to determine the leak, it is not reproducible on my development workstation...Windows Vista.
The GC collection cycles are not consistent between the server and the workstation and it appears the server's collection is not reclaiming all of its memory and is eventually running out. The server becomes non responsive and throws out of memory exceptions.
We have tried setting objects that are surviving too many generations to null...Some improvement was noticed.
Any assistance/recommendations would be greatly appreciated
Tess Ferrandez's blog has some great information on debugging memory leaks using Windbg.
By taking a dump of the running application and then analysing it in Windbg, you should be able to find the source of the leaks you are seeing.
The following entries are probably a good starting point:
Setup (including links to configuring Windbg
Memory Leak Lab 1
Memory Leak Lab 2
Good luck!