Hi Gerry,
I had set the following parameters for DBOptions:
setStatsDempPeriodSec( 600) // 10 mins
setDBLogDir("/var/tmp/")
I saw the files getting generated in /var/tmp. But I did not get the statistics here. You will get all the options that are used for RocksDB.
May be you can try to set createStatistics() as well.
By the way I was able to get rid of memory consumption issue. Did you try using FLASH_SSD_OPTION ?