chore: hibernate_after in many places - #3344
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we already hibernate after its calls
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Everything looks good and works well on my end.
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From debugging our application locally over the past week, I found that
From the GenServer documentation:
So in this branch I explored using this strategically.
:hibernate(except after initializing, which I've added here), so I figured it's ok to have theSystemStatuscaches, which rely on alerts, to use these tooServiceDateRolloveris a ~once a day thing, so I added:hibernateafter that message,:hibernate_afterwill hibernate after a given amount of milliseconds without messages. This felt appropriate in most cases, because most of our GenServers have sporadic activitySome slightly more involved tweaks here:
Results
Alas, what do the
:observerload charts say. The lower left charts depict memory usage pretty soon after application startup.There's a noticeable reduction in the baseline memory usage here.