[Gluster-devel] Client memory footprint

[Gordan Bobic]

 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