[Gluster-devel] memory leaks

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 11/04/2014 03:30 PM, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> On 2014-11-04 10:38, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> FWIW, there are still memory leaks in glusterfs 3.6.0. My favourite test is
>> building NetBSD on a replicated volume, and it fails because the machine
>> runs out of swap.
>>
>> After building for 14 hours and now idle, client gusterfsd grew to
>> 2024 MB, one server glusterfsd grew to 1164 MB, the other one to 1290 MB
> Don't you mean glusterfs (the fuse client?). At least I have the same issues
> with glusterfs on fedora20, it looks like the client gains some fat as files
> and/or directories are added. Any info on how to debug memory issues on the
> client side (valgrind goes belly-up with tests of reasonable size). For instance
> is there any way to turn off internal memory pools (if there are any), in order
> to closely follow memory allocations with a suitable LD_PRELOAD malloc/free/...
> wrapper?
compiling with -DDEBUG disables that. Try './configure --enable-debug'

Pranith
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> /Anders
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