[Gluster-users] Old story - glusterfs memory usage

[Krzysztof Strasburger]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:08:48PM +0100, Amon Ott wrote:
> I can confirm this problem on our test system. glusterfs goes up to the memory 
> limit set for performance/io-cache (1.2 GB here), logs out of memory errors 
> and further access fails with "Stale NFS file handle". The above command did 
> not help, only remounting did.
> 
> So I assume some memory leak in the io-cache filter.
No, this should happen without any filters. What happens, if you disable
io-cache? 
> 
> > Have a look at patchsets which are soon going to come soon, which enable us
> > to pin point the leaks here:
> >
> > http://patches.gluster.com/
> > http://patches.gluster.com/patch/2971/  <- patchset starts here
> >
> > With 3.1 we will have more clear answer fo all memory related questions.
> 
> Do I have to scrape all related patches out of that server by hand to test it?
> 
I assume they are not yet production ready. Get them, recompile and try out,
but rather on a test filesystem.
Krzysztof