Crate jemalloc_ctl

jemalloc control and introspection.

jemalloc offers a powerful introspection and control interface through the mallctl function. It can be used to tune the allocator, take heap dumps, and retrieve statistics. This crate provides a typed API over that interface.

While mallctl takes a string to specify an operation (e.g. stats.allocated or stats.arenas.15.muzzy_decay_ms), the overhead of repeatedly parsing those strings is not ideal. Fortunately, jemalloc offers the ability to translate the string ahead of time into a “Management Information Base” (MIB) to speed up future lookups.

This crate provides a type for each mallctl operation. Calling $op::{read(), write(x), update(x)} on the type calls mallctl with the string-based API. If the operation will be repeatedly performed, a MIB for the operation can be obtained using $op.mib().

Examples

Repeatedly printing allocation statistics:

extern crate jemallocator;
extern crate jemalloc_ctl;

use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
use jemalloc_ctl::{stats, epoch};

#[global_allocator]
static ALLOC: jemallocator::Jemalloc = jemallocator::Jemalloc;

fn main() {
    loop {
        // many statistics are cached and only updated when the epoch is advanced.
        epoch::advance().unwrap();

        let allocated = stats::allocated::read().unwrap();
        let resident = stats::resident::read().unwrap();
        println!("{} bytes allocated/{} bytes resident", allocated, resident);
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(10));
    }
}

Doing the same with the MIB-based API:

extern crate jemallocator;
extern crate jemalloc_ctl;

use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
use jemalloc_ctl::{stats, epoch};

#[global_allocator]
static ALLOC: jemallocator::Jemalloc = jemallocator::Jemalloc;

fn main() {
    let e = epoch::mib().unwrap();
    let allocated = stats::allocated::mib().unwrap();
    let resident = stats::resident::mib().unwrap();
    loop {
        // many statistics are cached and only updated when the epoch is advanced.
        e.advance().unwrap();

        let allocated = allocated.read().unwrap();
        let resident = resident.read().unwrap();
        println!("{} bytes allocated/{} bytes resident", allocated, resident);
        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(10));
    }
}

Modules

arenas	Arena operations.
config	jemalloc’s build-time configuration.
opt	jemalloc’s run-time configuration.
raw	Raw unsafe access to the malloctl API.
stats	Global allocator statistics.
thread	Thread specific operations.

Structs

Error	Errors of the jemalloc_sys::mallct-family of functions.
Mib	Management Information Base of a non-string value.
MibStr	Management Information Base of a string value.
Name	A Name in the MALLCTL NAMESPACE.
background_thread	State of internal background worker threads.
background_thread_mib	See background_thread.
epoch	jemalloc epoch.
epoch_mib	See epoch.
max_background_threads	Maximum number of background threads that will be created.
max_background_threads_mib	See max_background_threads.
version	jemalloc version string.
version_mib	See version.

Traits

Access	Safe read access to the MALLCTL NAMESPACE.
AsName	Converts a null-terminated byte-string into a Name.

Type Definitions

Result

Result type