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Comparing memory usage between node.js object and go map[string]interface{} (programming.dev)
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I'm fairly new to go and I've recently migrated a in-memory cache from node to go for concurrency improvements, but the memory usage difference between the two are huge. I've tried to read up on the map memory model in go but haven't been able to find a reason for the difference. I can't see that I'm doing anything special, so I'm looking for guidance here.

The documents that are stored are around 8 KB in size as a JSON file. In node the memory usage for 50000 documents stored as objects is 1,5 GB, and for go maps it is 10 GB.

To me, this doesn't seem reasonable but I can't find the source of the difference. Could anyone here give their take on this?

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[-] nemith@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

How are you measuring memory storage size? Are you sure you are looking as resident memory size and not just the virtual memory size?

Actual storage of the structures should be nothing. Interfaces are "fat pointers" but that should really just be an extra word which node would have at least that if not more.

My guess is that if you are looking at virtual memory that more memory/garbage is produced in PARSING and not storing and that the virtual memory size allocated is high even after garbage collection but RSS should be different.

[-] bia@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

I'm looking at the memory reported by metrics-server in EKS, as that what I base the container resource scaling on. Maybe the go process is reporting memory in a way that doesn't represent the "actual" usage. But I'm not sure it matters here, unless I can get it to change the reported memory usage.

Please see the heap dump I added for 10000 devices. Reported memory is 1,1 GB.

[-] bia@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

heap dump from pprof

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