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John Spray 47d2b3a483 pageserver: limit total ephemeral layer bytes (#7218)
## Problem

Follows: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/7182

- Sufficient concurrent writes could OOM a pageserver from the size of
indices on all the InMemoryLayer instances.
- Enforcement of checkpoint_period only happened if there were some
writes.

Closes: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6916

## Summary of changes

- Add `ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb` config property. This controls the
ratio of ephemeral layer capacity to memory capacity. The weird unit is
to enable making the ratio less than 1:1 (set this property to 1024 to
use 1MB of ephemeral layers for every 1MB of RAM, set it smaller to get
a fraction).
- Implement background layer rolling checks in
Timeline::compaction_iteration -- this ensures we apply layer rolling
policy in the absence of writes.
- During background checks, if the total ephemeral layer size has
exceeded the limit, then roll layers whose size is greater than the mean
size of all ephemeral layers.
- Remove the tick() path from walreceiver: it isn't needed any more now
that we do equivalent checks from compaction_iteration.
- Add tests for the above.

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Co-authored-by: Arpad Müller <arpad-m@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-03-26 15:45:32 +00:00
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