optimize: reduce memory usage by reading kallsyms only in the trace command #700
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Background
Currently, reading kallsyms during program loading causes unnecessary high memory usage, while kallsyms is only used in the trace command. Therefore, this patch changes it to initialize kallsyms before executing the trace command.
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Test Result
Configuration
Use
go tool pprof -http=:8080 http://localhost:12333/debug/pprof/heap
to generate the flame graph.Screenshot
Lowers RSS usage from 194 MiB to 75 MiB.
Before:
After: