[Gluster-devel] Potential Memory Leak?

[Krishna Srinivas]

Hi Karl,

Do you see the memory usage go up everytime you run the script?

Can you give us the config details, spec files and script? That will
help us to find out where the leak might be happening.

Thanks
Krishna

On 10/21/07, Karl Bernard <karl at vomba.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been testing luster in a development environment with 4 servers
> acting as both client and servers.
>
> In the last 2 days, I've run maintenance script that perform a lot of
> read and write operations.
>
> I've noticed that the glusterfsd was using 57mb of memory when initially
> started and the memory usage grew to using 85% of server memory on one
> of the host:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND
> 23219 root      17   0 1027m 861m  756 D    2 85.3 315:29.43 glusterfsd
>
> I also saw the performance slowly degrade and saw a huge jump in speed
> after I restarted the deamon on all the bricks.
>
> I'm unsure what to monitor to help debug the potential problem. Is there
> something I can do to help improve gluster and fix that problem?
>
> Karl
>
>
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