Improve tcmalloc when decommitting large amounts of memory

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    • Dev Tools 2019-05-06, Dev Tools 2019-04-22
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      tcmalloc may occasionally release large amounts of pageheap free memory to the kernel by calling madvise. This can take seconds when the amount of memory involved is many GB. A tcmalloc internal lock is held while this happens, so this can potentially stall many threads, causing widespread latency spikes.

      There is no direct metric that diagnoses this (SERVER-31380 would provide that), but it can be indirectly inferred to be a likely cause from the following:

      • tcmalloc pageheap free memory decreases to near zero
      • tcmalloc unmapped memory increases by a corresponding amount
      • resident memory decreases by the same amount
      • system free memory increases by that amount

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            [DO NOT USE] Backlog - Performance Team
            Reporter:
            Bruce Lucas (Inactive)
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