[Gluster-devel] 2.0.0rc4 locks up when used as root

[Gordan Bobic]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:43:20 -0700, Amar Tumballi <amar at gluster.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the update, I'll try it tonight. Any news on the memory leak?
>> Have you managed to track it down yet?
>>
> 
> We noticed that its some issue with 'arena algorithm' of glibc's memory
> management. We are working on solving this issue properly. Should have an
> update soon. As of now, there is no 'leak' observed, but all of the
issues
> were related to memory fragmentation problems.

Interesting. I can't quite see how memory fragmentation could be
responsible for such extreme memory usage growth that eventually uses up
all RAM+swap, but I'll be happy to test this when I manage to get rc5 to
boot.

Gordan