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qdrant-memory-usage-optimization · Qdrant内存占用诊断优化

讲解Qdrant常驻内存与页缓存区别,给出内存监控、容量估算及量化、数据类型、磁盘存储等降低内存占用的具体方法。

先看看示例

作者提供的示例,实际效果取决于你的输入和使用工具。

输入

针对Qdrant节点常驻内存超过总内存80%的情况,分析原因并给出量化与磁盘存储优化建议。

输出

预期交付:内存问题判断与优化建议清单(编辑说明,非实际运行结果)

方法说明

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name: qdrant-memory-usage-optimization
description: "Diagnoses and reduces Qdrant memory usage. Use when someone reports 'memory too high', 'RAM keeps growing', 'node crashed', 'out of memory', 'memory leak', or asks 'why is memory usage so high?', 'how to reduce RAM?'. Also use when memory doesn't match calculations, quantization didn't help, or nodes crash during recovery."
---

# Understanding memory usage

Qdrant operates with two types of memory:

- Resident memory (aka RSSAnon) - memory used for internal data structures like the ID tracker, plus components that must stay in RAM, such as quantized vectors when `always_ram=true` and payload indexes.

- OS page cache - memory used for caching disk reads, which can be released when needed. Original vectors are normally stored in page cache, so the service won't crash if RAM is full, but performance may degrade.

It is normal for the OS page cache to occupy all available RAM, but if resident memory is above 80% of total RAM, it is a sign of a problem.

## Memory usage monitoring

- Qdrant exposes memory usage through the `/metrics` endpoint. See [Monitoring docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/operations/monitoring/).

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## How much memory is needed for Qdrant?

Optimal memory usage depends on the use case.

- For regular search scenarios, general guidelines are provided in the [Capacity planning docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/operations/capacity-planning/).

For a detailed breakdown of memory usage at large scale, see [Large scale memory usage example](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/tutorials-operations/large-scale-search/?s=memory-usage).

Payload indexes and HNSW graph also require memory, along with vectors themselves, so it's important to consider them in calculations.

Additionally, Qdrant requires some extra memory for optimizations. During optimization, optimized segments are fully loaded into RAM, so it is important to leave enough headroom.
The larger `max_segment_size` is, the more headroom is needed.


### When to put HNSW index on disk

Putting frequently used components (such as HNSW index) on disk might cause significant performance degradation.
There are some scenarios, however, when it can be a good option:

- Deployments with low latency disks - local NVMe or similar.
- Multi-tenant deployments, where only a subset of tenants is frequently accessed, so that only a fraction of data & index is loaded in RAM at a time.
- For deployments with [inline storage](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/operations/optimize/?s=inline-storage-in-hnsw-index) enabled.


## How to minimize memory footprint

The main challenge is to put on disk those parts of data, which are rarely accessed.
Here are the main techniques to achieve that:

- Use quantization to store only compressed vectors in RAM [Quantization docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/quantization/)

- Use float16 or int8 datatypes to reduce memory usage of vectors by 2x or 4x respectively, with some tradeoff in precision. Read more about vector datatypes in [documentation](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/vectors/?s=datatypes)

- Leverage Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) to store only small vectors in RAM while keeping large vectors on disk. Examples of how to use MRL with Qdrant Cloud inference: [MRL docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/inference/?s=reduce-vector-dimensionality-with-matryoshka-models)

- For multi-tenant deployments with small tenants, vectors might be stored on disk because the same tenant's data is stored together [Multitenancy docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=calibrate-performance)

- For deployments with fast local storage and relatively low requirements for search throughput, it may be possible to store all components of vector store on disk. Read more about the performance implications of on-disk storage in [the article](https://qdrant.tech/articles/memory-consumption/)

- For low RAM environments, consider `async_scorer` config, which enables support of `io_uring` for parallel disk access, which can significantly improve performance of on-disk storage. Read more about `async_scorer` in [the article](https://qdrant.tech/articles/io_uring/) (only available on Linux with kernel 5.11+)

- Consider storing Sparse Vectors and text payload on disk, as they are usually more disk-friendly than dense vectors.
- Configure payload indexes to be stored on disk [docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/indexing/?s=on-disk-payload-index)
- Configure sparse vectors to be stored on disk [docs](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/indexing/?s=sparse-vector-index)