From: Siraaj Khandkar <siraaj@khandkar.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:18:47 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Show screenshot of per-process stats
X-Git-Tag: 1.0.2~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.xandkar.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=def691558c40829e801328a4904dfed34defe186;p=beam_stats.git

Show screenshot of per-process stats
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@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ Essentially like `folsomite`, but different. Different in the following ways:
     + Well-defined metrics-to-binary conversions, as opposed to the
       nearly-arbitrary term-to-string conversions used in `folsomite`
     + Spec'd, tested and Dialyzed
+- More detailed stats:
+    - **per-process**. As much process ancestry is collected as possible, then
+      anonymous processes are aggregated to their youngest-known, named
+      predecessor - this aggregation keeps the useful breadcrumbs, while
+      reducing the number of unique names from exploding, which
+      **avoids the associated problems**:
+        1. not very useful when there're lots of short-lived processes
+        2. exploading disk space usage in Whisper
+    - per-ETS-table
+
+For an example of using pre-process stats to track-down memory leaks, here's a
+screenshot of the SSL connection process memory usage growth drop after upgrade
+from 17.5 to 18.1 (back in 2015):
+![SSL memory leak going away](screenshot--2015-10-05--18.41.30.jpg)
 
 ### Adding consumers
 
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