Getting Started¶
This document briefly describes how you can use DAMON by demonstrating its default user space tool. Please note that this document describes only a part of its features for brevity. Please refer to the usage doc of the tool for more details.
Prerequisites¶
Kernel¶
You should first ensure your system is running on a kernel built with
CONFIG_DAMON_*=y.
User Space Tool¶
For the demonstration, we will use the default user space tool for DAMON,
called DAMON Operator (DAMO). It is available at
https://github.com/awslabs/damo. The examples below assume that damo is on
your $PATH. It’s not mandatory, though.
Because DAMO is using the sysfs interface (refer to Detailed Usages for the detail) of DAMON, you should ensure sysfs is mounted.
Snapshot Data Access Patterns¶
The commands below show the memory access pattern of a program at the moment of the execution.
$ git clone https://github.com/sjp38/masim; cd masim; make
$ sudo damo start "./masim ./configs/stairs.cfg --quiet"
$ sudo ./damo show
0 addr [85.541 TiB , 85.541 TiB ) (57.707 MiB ) access 0 % age 10.400 s
1 addr [85.541 TiB , 85.542 TiB ) (413.285 MiB) access 0 % age 11.400 s
2 addr [127.649 TiB , 127.649 TiB) (57.500 MiB ) access 0 % age 1.600 s
3 addr [127.649 TiB , 127.649 TiB) (32.500 MiB ) access 0 % age 500 ms
4 addr [127.649 TiB , 127.649 TiB) (9.535 MiB ) access 100 % age 300 ms
5 addr [127.649 TiB , 127.649 TiB) (8.000 KiB ) access 60 % age 0 ns
6 addr [127.649 TiB , 127.649 TiB) (6.926 MiB ) access 0 % age 1 s
7 addr [127.998 TiB , 127.998 TiB) (120.000 KiB) access 0 % age 11.100 s
8 addr [127.998 TiB , 127.998 TiB) (8.000 KiB ) access 40 % age 100 ms
9 addr [127.998 TiB , 127.998 TiB) (4.000 KiB ) access 0 % age 11 s
total size: 577.590 MiB
$ sudo ./damo stop
The first command of the above example downloads and builds an artificial
memory access generator program called masim. The second command asks DAMO
to execute the artificial generator process start via the given command and
make DAMON monitors the generator process. The third command retrieves the
current snapshot of the monitored access pattern of the process from DAMON and
shows the pattern in a human readable format.
Each line of the output shows which virtual address range (addr [XX, XX))
of the process is how frequently (access XX %) accessed for how long time
(age XX). For example, the fifth region of ~9 MiB size is being most
frequently accessed for last 300 milliseconds. Finally, the fourth command
stops DAMON.
Note that DAMON can monitor not only virtual address spaces but multiple types of address spaces including the physical address space.
Recording Data Access Patterns¶
The commands below record the memory access patterns of a program and save the monitoring results to a file.
$ ./masim ./configs/zigzag.cfg &
$ sudo damo record -o damon.data $(pidof masim)
The line of the commands run the artificial memory access
generator program again. The generator will repeatedly
access two 100 MiB sized memory regions one by one. You can substitute this
with your real workload. The last line asks damo to record the access
pattern in the damon.data file.
Visualizing Recorded Patterns¶
You can visualize the pattern in a heatmap, showing which memory region (x-axis) got accessed when (y-axis) and how frequently (number).:
$ sudo damo report heats --heatmap stdout
22222222222222222222222222222222222222211111111111111111111111111111111111111100
44444444444444444444444444444444444444434444444444444444444444444444444444443200
44444444444444444444444444444444444444433444444444444444444444444444444444444200
33333333333333333333333333333333333333344555555555555555555555555555555555555200
33333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444444444444444444444444200
22222222222222222222222222222222222223355555555555555555555555555555555555555200
00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400
00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400
33333333333333333333333333333333333333355555555555555555555555555555555555555200
88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000
88888888888888888888888888888888888888600000000000000000000000000000000000000000
33333333333333333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444444443200
00000000000000000000000000000000000000288888888888888888888888888888888888888400
[...]
# access_frequency: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
# x-axis: space (139728247021568-139728453431248: 196.848 MiB)
# y-axis: time (15256597248362-15326899978162: 1 m 10.303 s)
# resolution: 80x40 (2.461 MiB and 1.758 s for each character)
You can also visualize the distribution of the working set size, sorted by the size.:
$ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10
# <percentile> <wss>
# target_id 18446632103789443072
# avr: 107.708 MiB
0 0 B | |
10 95.328 MiB |**************************** |
20 95.332 MiB |**************************** |
30 95.340 MiB |**************************** |
40 95.387 MiB |**************************** |
50 95.387 MiB |**************************** |
60 95.398 MiB |**************************** |
70 95.398 MiB |**************************** |
80 95.504 MiB |**************************** |
90 190.703 MiB |********************************************************* |
100 196.875 MiB |***********************************************************|
Using --sortby option with the above command, you can show how the working
set size has chronologically changed.:
$ sudo damo report wss --range 0 101 10 --sortby time
# <percentile> <wss>
# target_id 18446632103789443072
# avr: 107.708 MiB
0 3.051 MiB | |
10 190.703 MiB |***********************************************************|
20 95.336 MiB |***************************** |
30 95.328 MiB |***************************** |
40 95.387 MiB |***************************** |
50 95.332 MiB |***************************** |
60 95.320 MiB |***************************** |
70 95.398 MiB |***************************** |
80 95.398 MiB |***************************** |
90 95.340 MiB |***************************** |
100 95.398 MiB |***************************** |
Data Access Pattern Aware Memory Management¶
Below command makes every memory region of size >=4K that has not accessed for >=60 seconds in your workload to be swapped out.
$ sudo damo schemes --damos_access_rate 0 0 --damos_sz_region 4K max \
--damos_age 60s max --damos_action pageout \
<pid of your workload>