A memory profiler for Ruby
Ruby(MRI) Version 2.5 and above.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
And then execute:
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install heap-profiler
HeapProfiler can be used to measure memory allocations and retentions of a Ruby code snippet.
To record a profile:
require 'heap-profiler' HeapProfiler.report('path/to/report/directory') do # You code here end
To then analyse the profile, run the heap-profiler
command against the directory you specified. Note that on large applications this can take a while, but if you are profiling a production application, you can download the profile directory and do the analysis on another machine.
Usage: heap-profiler <directory_or_heap_dump> OPTIONS
OPTIONS
-r, --retained-only Only compute report for memory retentions.
-m, --max=NUM Max number of entries to output. (Defaults to 50)
--batch-size SIZE Sets the simdjson parser batch size. It must be larger than the largest JSON document in the heap dump, and defaults to 10MB.
$ heap-profiler path/to/report/directory Total allocated: 3.72 kB (36 objects) Total retained: 808.00 B (12 objects) allocated memory by gem ----------------------------------- 3.72 kB other allocated memory by file ----------------------------------- 3.72 kB bin/generate-report allocated memory by location ----------------------------------- 3.17 kB bin/generate-report:34 157.00 B bin/generate-report:28 80.00 B bin/generate-report:21 72.00 B bin/generate-report:26 40.00 B bin/generate-report:31 40.00 B bin/generate-report:30 40.00 B bin/generate-report:25 40.00 B bin/generate-report:24 40.00 B bin/generate-report:23 40.00 B bin/generate-report:22 allocated memory by class ----------------------------------- 1.18 kB Class 848.00 B <iseq> (IMEMO) 597.00 B String 384.00 B <ment> (IMEMO) 200.00 B Array 192.00 B Hash 80.00 B <ifunc> (IMEMO) 80.00 B <cref> (IMEMO) 72.00 B Date 40.00 B Symbol 40.00 B SomeCustomStuff allocated objects by gem ----------------------------------- 36 other allocated objects by file ----------------------------------- 36 bin/generate-report allocated objects by location ----------------------------------- 27 bin/generate-report:34 1 bin/generate-report:31 1 bin/generate-report:30 1 bin/generate-report:28 1 bin/generate-report:26 1 bin/generate-report:25 1 bin/generate-report:24 1 bin/generate-report:23 1 bin/generate-report:22 1 bin/generate-report:21 allocated objects by class ----------------------------------- 12 String 8 <ment> (IMEMO) 4 Array 2 Class 2 <iseq> (IMEMO) 2 <ifunc> (IMEMO) 2 <cref> (IMEMO) 1 Symbol 1 SomeCustomStuff 1 Hash 1 Date retained memory by gem ----------------------------------- 808.00 B other retained memory by file ----------------------------------- 808.00 B bin/generate-report retained memory by location ----------------------------------- 168.00 B bin/generate-report:30 168.00 B bin/generate-report:28 160.00 B bin/generate-report:34 80.00 B bin/generate-report:21 72.00 B bin/generate-report:26 40.00 B bin/generate-report:25 40.00 B bin/generate-report:24 40.00 B bin/generate-report:23 40.00 B bin/generate-report:22 retained memory by class ----------------------------------- 336.00 B Hash 240.00 B String 80.00 B Array 72.00 B Date 40.00 B Symbol 40.00 B SomeCustomStuff retained objects by gem ----------------------------------- 12 other retained objects by file ----------------------------------- 12 bin/generate-report retained objects by location ----------------------------------- 4 bin/generate-report:34 1 bin/generate-report:30 1 bin/generate-report:28 1 bin/generate-report:26 1 bin/generate-report:25 1 bin/generate-report:24 1 bin/generate-report:23 1 bin/generate-report:22 1 bin/generate-report:21 retained objects by class ----------------------------------- 6 String 2 Hash 1 Symbol 1 SomeCustomStuff 1 Date 1 Array Allocated String Report ----------------------------------- 80.00 B 2 "foo=" 2 bin/generate-report:34 80.00 B 2 "foo" 2 bin/generate-report:34 80.00 B 2 "bar=" 2 bin/generate-report:34 80.00 B 2 "I am retained" 1 bin/generate-report:23 1 bin/generate-report:22 40.00 B 1 "I am retained too" 1 bin/generate-report:24 40.00 B 1 "I am allocated too" 1 bin/generate-report:31 40.00 B 1 "I am allocated" 1 bin/generate-report:30 157.00 B 1 "I am a very very long string I am a very very long string I am a very very long string I am a very very long string " 1 bin/generate-report:28 Retained String Report ----------------------------------- 80.00 B 2 "I am retained" 1 bin/generate-report:23 1 bin/generate-report:22 40.00 B 1 "foo=" 1 bin/generate-report:34 40.00 B 1 "foo" 1 bin/generate-report:34 40.00 B 1 "bar=" 1 bin/generate-report:34 40.00 B 1 "I am retained too" 1 bin/generate-report:24
Alternatively if you with to analyse the entire heap of your Ruby process.
If you can, you should enable allocation tracing as early as possible during your application boot process, e.g. in config/boot.rb
for Rails apps.
require 'objspace' ObjectSpace.trace_object_allocations_start
Then to dump the heap:
require 'objspace' ObjectSpace.dump_all(output: File.open('path/to/file.heap', 'w+'))
Then run heap-profiler
against it:
heap-profiler path/to/file.heapHow is it different from memory_profiler?
heap-profiler
is heavilly inspired of memory_profiler
, it aims at being as similar as possible. However it uses a different Ruby API to gather data.
memory_profiler
uses ObjectSpace.each_object
which contrary to what its name suggest doesn't expose all existing object. There are many objects that the Ruby VM consider "internal" (see MRI's internal_object_p(VALUE)
) and won't yield to each_object
.
On the other hand heap-profiler
uses ObjectSpace.dump_all
, which does serialize every objects, including internal ones, into JSON files. This leads to more exhaustive reports.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then, run rake test
to run the tests. You can also run bin/console
for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install
. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb
, and then run bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Shopify/heap-profiler.
This gem was heavilly inspired from http://github.com/SamSaffron/memory_profiler, it even borrowed some code from it, so thanks to @SamSaffron.
It also makes heavy use of https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson for fast heap dump parsing. So big thanks to Daniel Lemire and John Keiser.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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