Nomad runs one logmon process and also one docker_logger process for each
running allocation. A naive look at memory usage shows 10-30 MB of RSS, but a
closer look shows that most of this memory (ex. all but ~2MB for logmon) is
shared (`Shared_Clean` in Linux pmap).
But a heap dump of docker_logger shows that it currently has an extra ~2500 KiB
of heap (anonymously-mapped unshared memory) used for init blocks coming from
the agent code (ex. mostly regexes from go-version, structs, and the Consul
SDK). The packages for running logmon, docker_logger, and executor have an init
block that parses `os.Args` to drop into their own logic, which prevents them
from loading all the rest of the agent code and saves on memory, so this was
unexpected.
It looks like we accidentally reordered the imports in main to undo some of the
work originally done in 404d2d4c98f1df930be1ae9852fe6e6ae8c1517e. This changeset
restores the ordering. A follow-up heap dump shows this saves ~2MB of unshared
RSS per docker_logger process.
Tim Gross