[Gluster-users] GlusterFS FUSE client leaks summary — part I

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

Here is intermediate summary of current memory leaks in FUSE client 
investigation.

I use GlusterFS v3.7.6 release with the following patches:

===
Kaleb S KEITHLEY (1):
      fuse: use-after-free fix in fuse-bridge, revisited

Pranith Kumar K (1):
      mount/fuse: Fix use-after-free crash

Soumya Koduri (3):
      gfapi: Fix inode nlookup counts
      inode: Retire the inodes from the lru list in inode_table_destroy
      upcall: free the xdr* allocations
===

With those patches we got API leaks fixed (I hope, brief tests show that) and 
got rid of "kernel notifier loop terminated" message. Nevertheless, FUSE 
client still leaks.

I have several test volumes with several million of small files (100K…2M in 
average). I do 2 types of FUSE client testing:

1) find /mnt/volume -type d
2) rsync -av -H /mnt/source_volume/* /mnt/target_volume/

And most up-to-date results are shown below:

=== find /mnt/volume -type d ===

Memory consumption: ~4G
Statedump: https://gist.github.com/10cde83c63f1b4f1dd7a
Valgrind: https://gist.github.com/097afb01ebb2c5e9e78d

I guess, fuse-bridge/fuse-resolve. related.

=== rsync -av -H /mnt/source_volume/* /mnt/target_volume/ ===

Memory consumption: ~3.3...4G
Statedump (target volume): https://gist.github.com/31e43110eaa4da663435
Valgrind (target volume): https://gist.github.com/f8e0151a6878cacc9b1a

I guess, DHT-related.

Give me more patches to test :).