[Gluster-devel] memory usage (client)

Dale Dude dale at oc3networks.com
Thu Jul 5 17:46:51 UTC 2007


I see the same memory issue. They know about it and I believe are trying 
to resolve it.

Dale

Rhesa Rozendaal wrote:
> Thanks, Harris.
>
> I tried it without io-threads to see what that would result in:
>
>  7218 root      17   0  476m 464m  844 R   85 23.0  41:15.20 [glusterfs]
>
> It did increase a lot slower this time, but still nowhere near your 
> numbers. I'll see what happens when disabling one of read-ahead and 
> write-behind, and then both. I'd like to know where this memory usage 
> comes from, because I don't think I can deploy it like this yet.
>
> I'm on 275, btw.
>
> Rhesa
>
> Harris Landgarten wrote:
>> Rheas,
>>
>> My setup is very similar to yours but I am not using io-threads on 
>> the client (only on servers) and I have 2 bricks. This is my top
>>
>>  4522 root      15   0 14812 5420  848 S  0.0  0.3   0:11.03 glusterfs
>>
>> Quite a difference.
>>
>> Harris
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rhesa Rozendaal" <gluster at rhesa.com>
>> To: "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel at nongnu.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 10:57:41 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
>> Subject: [Gluster-devel] memory usage (client)
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been trying to limit glusterfs' memory consumption, but so far 
>> not much luck.
>>
>> here's a snapshot of my "top":
>>   6697 root      15   0  369m 295m  876 S   45 14.6   3:10.13 
>> [glusterfs]
>>
>> And it keeps growing, so I'm not sure where it'll settle. Is there 
>> anything I can do to keep it to around 100m?
>
>
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