.NET 5 sample core application created using Visual Studio 2019 core template is running in VPS Debian server with Apache and proxy to kestrel. Linux x64 deploment mode was selected to increate startup speed so native linux x64 application (Store) was created.
VPS has 12 GB of ram and swap file disabled. top shows that application (Store) can use 22 GB of virtual memory.
Since swap is disabled using such amount of memory is not possible.
> MiB Mem : 12288,0 total, 5297,8 free, 1234,3 used, 5755,9 buff/cache MiB
> Swap: 0,0 total, 0,0 free, 0,0 used. 10898,5 avail Mem
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 27080 www-data 20 0 22,0g 70332 33532 S 0,0 0,6 0:02.02 /var/www/store5/Store
Is it reasonable and if yes, how to limit .NET 5 application virtual memory size? There will be may applications in server so maximum allowed virtual memory should be about 2 GB for this application.
After that RES size has increased from 70MB to 120MB. It looks like .NET may try to allocate 22GB on RAM after some time if lot of requests are processed.
The basic idea behing the GC is already to grab/release memory when it makes sense (for example there is no need to spend time in releasing memory to the OS if you still have free memory available).
So I would not spend time in trying to tune that unless seeing a real problem (maybe starting with monitoring first what happens).
Edit: according to the previous link it seems that GC full collections are done when the memory load is beyond 90% of the physical memory.
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How to limit virtual memory size in Linux
Dec 25, 2020 11:33 AM|kobruleht|LINK
.NET 5 sample core application created using Visual Studio 2019 core template is running in VPS Debian server with Apache and proxy to kestrel. Linux x64 deploment mode was selected to increate startup speed so native linux x64 application (Store) was created.
VPS has 12 GB of ram and swap file disabled. top shows that application (Store) can use 22 GB of virtual memory.
Since swap is disabled using such amount of memory is not possible.
> MiB Mem : 12288,0 total, 5297,8 free, 1234,3 used, 5755,9 buff/cache MiB > Swap: 0,0 total, 0,0 free, 0,0 used. 10898,5 avail Mem > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 27080 www-data 20 0 22,0g 70332 33532 S 0,0 0,6 0:02.02 /var/www/store5/StoreIs it reasonable and if yes, how to limit .NET 5 application virtual memory size? There will be may applications in server so maximum allowed virtual memory should be about 2 GB for this application.
I tried some times Apache benchmark
ab -n 35000 -c 140 https://mysite.com/store5
After that RES size has increased from 70MB to 120MB. It looks like .NET may try to allocate 22GB on RAM after some time if lot of requests are processed.
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Re: How to limit virtual memory size in Linux
Dec 25, 2020 03:20 PM|bruce (sqlwork.com)|LINK
More likely you have a memory leak that you should fix.
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Re: How to limit virtual memory size in Linux
Dec 25, 2020 03:52 PM|PatriceSc|LINK
Hi,
A linux forum could be better. Try perhaps ulimit Man Page - Linux - SS64.com and the -v option or do you want to play with GC settings found at Garbage collector config settings - .NET | Microsoft Docs ?
The basic idea behing the GC is already to grab/release memory when it makes sense (for example there is no need to spend time in releasing memory to the OS if you still have free memory available).
So I would not spend time in trying to tune that unless seeing a real problem (maybe starting with monitoring first what happens).
Edit: according to the previous link it seems that GC full collections are done when the memory load is beyond 90% of the physical memory.