I am trying to understand how airbyte deal with memory. Every time a conector reads a lot of records, I need to increase the vm memory and cpu. I found the JOB_MAIN_CONTAINER_MEMORY_REQUEST and JOB_MAIN_CONTAINER_MEMORY_LIMIT. But Id like to understand how this works from source to dest.
Example, if I set the request and memory limit to 2gb but the first sync is 10gb of rows, how will it be handled? First 2gb of rows goes to disk? And when airbyte goes to send this to dest, will it be batches of 2gb, or something like that? I really appreciate any link to docs, discussion or article that answers things like that.
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Firstly, it depends on what type of connector you’re using. If you’re using a source connector: sources read data in batches. It’s not possible to know what the size of these batches are before reading them. For destination connectors: destinations read records until they hit a batch size, which is currently set at 10k records. This can cause out of memory errors for tables with large row sizes, which perhaps you’ve experienced.
Admittedly, I don’t believe we have clarifying documentation relating to this but we welcome any contributions to our docs that can help the community. Let me know if I answered your question and apologies for the delay.