[Gluster-devel] glustershd status

[Krishnan Parthasarathi]

Harsha,

In addition to the valgrind output, statedump output of glustershd process when the leak is observed would be really helpful. 

thanks,
Krish

----- Original Message -----
> 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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> >
> >
> >
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