[Gluster-devel] Client memory footprint
Gordan Bobic
gordan at bobich.net
Wed Aug 24 09:08:21 UTC 2011
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:04 +0530, Pavan T C <tcp at gluster.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2011 09:02 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> Emmanuel Dreyfus<manu at netbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Another issue: glusterfs client eats a lot of memory. It grows up
>>> as big
>>> as 222 Mo in a few minutes. Here is top(1) output:
>>> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU
>>> COMMAND
>>> 19913 root 83 0 222M 122M RUN 6:52 42.97% 42.97%
>>> glusterfsd
>>>
>>> I do not think there is a leak, since that remain fairly stable.
>>> That is
>>> still big. Is it a number considered reasonable? Is there a way to
>>> tune
>>> memory usage for smaller systems (cache size?)
>>
>> No answer to that one. Are the numbers I have something common, or
>> is
>> there a problem to fix?
>
> This is normal.
Perhaps a more appropriate question would be: "How can this be
improved?"
Gordan
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