Fsyncs to the WAL can cause higher IO with lots of small writes or
slower disks. This reworks the previous wal fsyncing to remove the
extra goroutine and remove the hard-coded 100ms delay. Writes to
the wal still maintain the invariant that they do not return to the
caller until the write is fsync'd.
This also adds a new config options wal-fsync-delay (default 0s)
which can be increased if a delay is desired. This is somewhat useful
for system with slower disks, but the current default works well as
is.
Calling DiskSize can be expensive with many shards. Since the stats
collection runs this every 10s by default, it can be expensive and
wasteful to calculate the stats when nothing has changed. This avoids
re-calculating the shard size unless something has chagned.
The previous version was very innefficient due to the benchmarks used
to optimize it having a bug. This version always allocates a new
slice, but is O(n).
This switches compactions to use type values (FloatValues) from the
generic Values type. It avoids a bunch of allocations where each value
much be converted from a specific type to an interface{}.
Still seeing the panic that switching this logic around was supposed
to fix. We now delete the bulk of data outside of the fields lock
and then again, under the write lock, to ensure that the field mapping
is accurate. We don't do the full delete under the lock because it
can block writes and queries that require a read lock.
If blocks containing overlapping ranges of time where partially
recombined, it was possible for the some points to get dropped
during compactions. This occurred because the window of time of
the points we need to merge did not account for the partial blocks
created from a prior merge.
Fixes#8084
There is a race where the field type can be deleted while a new type
is written and during a query. When this happens, an iterator for
the new type is created but old data make still exist in the cache
for TSM files causing a panic.
Under high query load, a race exists in the cache and the WAL. Since
writes currently hit the cache first, they are availble for query before
they hit the WAL. If the WAL is writing and accessign the Value slice
at the same time that a query is run that needs to dedup the same slice,
a race occurs.
To fix this, the cache now just copies the values instead of storing the
slice passed in. Another way to fix this might be to have the writes go
to the wal before the cache. I think the latter would be better, but it
introduces some larger write path issues that we'd need to also address.
e.g. if the cache was full, writes to the WAL would need to be rejected
to avoid filling the disk.
Copying the slice in the cache is simpler for now and does not appear to
dramatically affect performance.
A measurement name that begins with an underscore and does not conflict
with one of the reserved measurement names will now be passed untouched
to the underlying shards rather than being intercepted as an empty
measurement.
A user still shouldn't rely on measurements that begin with underscores
to always be accessible, but this will prevent the most common use case
from causing unexpected behavior since we will very rarely, if ever, add
additional system sources.
Previously, tags had a `shouldCopy` flag to indicate if those tags
referenced an underlying buffer and should be copied to allow GC.
Unfortunately, this prevented tags from being copied that were
created and referenced the mmap which caused segfaults.
This change removes the `shouldCopy` flag and replaces it with a
`forceCopy` argument in `CreateSeriesIfNotExists()`. This allows
the write path to indicate that tags must be cloned on insert.
They rebased a revision we were previously relying upon that allowed us
to use the vanity name so we are reverting back to an older version with
the old import path.
The order of series keys is in ascending alphabetical order, not
descending alphabetical order, when it is ordered by descending time.
This fixes the ordering so points are returned in descending order. The
emitter also had the conditions for choosing which iterator to use in
the wrong direction (which only affects aggregates with `FILL(none)`).
This fixes LIMIT and OFFSET when they are used in a subquery where the
grouping of the inner query is different than the grouping of the outer
query. When organizing tag sets, the grouping of the outer query is
used so the final result is in the correct order. But, unfortunately,
the optimization incorrectly limited the number of points based on the
grouping in the outer query rather than the grouping in the inner query.
The ideal solution would be to use the outer grouping to further
organize it by the grouping for the inner subquery, but that's more
difficult to do at the moment. As an easier fix, the query engine now
limits the output of each series. This may result in these types of
queries being slower in some situations like this one:
SELECT mean(value) FROM (SELECT value FROM cpu GROUP BY host LIMIT 1)
This will be slower in a situation where the `cpu` measurement has a
high cardinality and many different tags.
This also fixes `last()` and `first()` when they are used in a subquery
because those functions use `LIMIT 1` as an internal optimization.
Every write to the WAL current runs and fsync before returning. When
there are lot of concurrent writes, this can cause the WAL to bottleneck
write throughput since fsyncs are very expensive.
This changes the writeToLog to fsync on an interval to allow multiple fsyncs
calls to be batched up into one. The writeToLog behavior is the same in that
it won't return until an fsync has been performed.
Adds a `tsdb.Series.ForEachTag()` function for safely iterating
over a series' tags within the context of a lock. This preverts
tags from being dereferenced during iteration which can cause
a seg fault.
This change delays Tag cloning until a new series is found, and will
only clone Tags acquired from `ParsePoints...` and not those referencing
the mmap-ed files (TSM) that are created on startup.
This leak seems to have been introduced in 8aa224b22d,
present in 1.1.0 and 1.1.1.
When points were parsed from HTTP payloads, their tags and fields
referred to subslices of the request body; if any tag set introduced a
new series, then those tags then were stored in the in-memory series
index objects, preventing the HTTP body from being garbage collected. If
there were no new series in the payload, then the request body would be
garbage collected as usual.
Now, we clone the tags before we store them in the index. This is an
imperfect fix because the Point still holds references to the original
tags, and the Point's field iterator also refers to the payload buffer.
However, the current write code path does not retain references to the
Point or its fields; and this change will likely be obsoleted when TSI
is introduced.
This change likely fixes#7827, #7810, #7778, and perhaps others.
This change adds some very basic name validation with the following
plain-english description: names must be non-zero sequence of printable
characters that do not contain slashes ('/' or '\') and are not equal to
either "." or "..".
The intent is that, since we currently just use database and retention
policy names directly as path elements, these rules will hopefully leave
us with names that should be at least close to valid directory names.
Ideally, we would restrict names even further or not use them as path
elements directly, but this should be a step towards the former without
restricting names "too much"