[Gluster-devel] memory leak with 2.5--patch-628

[Anand Avati]

How much ram does the client machine have?

avati

2007/12/30, Sascha Ottolski <ottolski at web.de>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone may have a hint how to track down a memory leak in
> glusterfs client. The leak is easily reproduced (at least here :-)) by
> sending a "rsync -avP" or "find -exec head -c1" over the mountpoint, that
> carries millions of files. The leak happens while the rsync scans the
> directory, before transferring any files.
>
> I didn't collect any hard numbers up to now, but I've seen glusterfs proc
> growing to about 3.5 GB after scanning 5 mio. or so files. The size of the
> process never seems to shrink, and I believe that it's not growing while
> tranferring data (I have a bonnie running for a while now, which doesn't
> seem
> to add to the process size).
>
> I've seen a similar memory consumption in 1.3.0-pre4, 1.3.7 and even with
> the
> latest tla checkout, the latter accompanied with fuse-1.7.0-glf7, on a
> debian
> 4.0, on amd64 hardware.
>
> It appears as if switching on or off read-ahead/write-behind doesn't make
> much
> of a difference when it comes to the leaking, but I certainly need to
> check
> that more thoroughly. Other translators in the picture are afr and unify.
>
> And of course I'm very much wondering if other people can reproduce this
> phenomenon...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sascha
>
>
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