Update agent pprof rpcs to streaming
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Description
### Issue
Improve upon #6841 to use streaming rpc endpoints so that the entire profile isn't loaded into memory. On a buys client or server a long run trace profile can reach near 100mb. Streaming would alleviate some of the memory burden on the server instead of loading it entirely in memory.
See https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/6841#issuecomment-572731049 for memory characteristics of various profiles.
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Research direction
Start with the agent pprof RPCs and the prior work in issue #6841, including its linked discussion about profile memory characteristics. The work is complete when long-running trace profiles use streaming RPC endpoints rather than loading the entire profile into memory.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- api, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100