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proposal: runtime: add total lifetime # of goroutines created #9165

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gopherbot opened this issue Nov 25, 2014 · 5 comments
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proposal: runtime: add total lifetime # of goroutines created #9165

gopherbot opened this issue Nov 25, 2014 · 5 comments
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by dtmoore@google.com:

runtime.NumGoroutine() reports the number of live goroutines.  Can there be something
that exports the total count?

Eg, we had a process that was regularly creating/destroying more than 10,000 goroutines
a second, but the working set size is always about 3,000.  The creation rate was both
unexpected and a performance problem.  There's not currently a convenient way to extract
this information.
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Comment 1:

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-none.

Status changed to Accepted.

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dvyukov commented Nov 26, 2014

Comment 2:

How did you find it? I assume with a CPU profiler. If so I do not see a reason to add
separate goroutine counter. First, if the goroutine creation does not show up in the CPU
profile, then it is not a problem; otherwise it's discoverable with CPU profiler.
Second, we can't add counters for all operations in runtime; CPU and memory profilers
are generic tools that uncover all issues of such kind.

@rsc rsc added this to the Unplanned milestone Apr 10, 2015
@odeke-em odeke-em changed the title runtime: add total lifetime # of goroutines created proposal: runtime: add total lifetime # of goroutines created Dec 23, 2017
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I've retitled this as a proposal, for what it is, to reignite the conversation and perhaps get a decision.

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Any Googlers able to get in touch with the original poster, as his input to @dvyukov's response might help drive the convo more.

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rsc commented Jan 23, 2018

I agree with @dvyukov's comment. Ordinary CPU profiling should show this, and is what people are going to reach for before printing a little-known runtime counter.

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