[Gluster-devel] glustershd status

[Harshavardhana]

Nope spoke too early, using poll() has no effect on the memory usage
on Linux, so actually back to FreeBSD.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Harshavardhana
<harsha at harshavardhana.net> wrote:
> KP,
>
> I do have a 3.2Gigs worth of valgrind output which indicates this
> issue, trying to reproduce this on Linux.
>
> My hunch says that 'compiling' with --disable-epoll might actually
> trigger this issue on Linux too. Will update here
> once i have done that testing.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Krishnan Parthasarathi
> <kparthas at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Emmanuel,
>>
>> Could you take statedump* of the glustershd process when it has leaked
>> enough memory to be able to observe and share the output? This might
>> give us what kind of objects are we allocating abnormally high.
>>
>> * statedump of a glusterfs process
>> #kill -USR1 <pid of process>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Krish
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:32:06PM -0700, Harshavardhana wrote:
>>> > On a side note while looking into this issue  - I uncovered a memory
>>> > leak too which after successful registration with glusterd, Self-heal
>>> > daemon and NFS server are killed by FreeBSD memory manager. Have you
>>> > observed any memory leaks?
>>> > I have the valgrind output and it clearly indicates of large memory
>>> > leaks - perhaps it could be just FreeBSD thing!
>>>
>>> I observed memory leaks on long terme usage. My favourite test case
>>> is building NetBSD on a replicated/distributed volume, and I can see
>>> processes growing a lot during the build. I reported it some time ago,
>>> and some leaks were plugged, but obviosuly some remain.
>>>
>>> valgrind was never ported to NetBSD, hence I lack investigative tools,
>>> but I bet the leaks exist on FreeBSD and Linux as well.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Emmanuel Dreyfus
>>> manu at netbsd.org
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