[Gluster-users] memory leak in performance/quick-read ?

Raghavendra G raghavendra at gluster.com
Mon Mar 15 09:03:53 UTC 2010


A bug has been filed at
http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=723

regards,
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Chida Nanda <canand2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ian,
>
>
> the translator performance/quick-read does not have cache-size option the
> > way that performance/io-cache does - and therefore doesn't have anything
> > like the ioc_prune() functionality of io-cache.
> >
> > I've discovered this can cause what is effectively a memory leak.
> >
> > I have a volume of up to 40GB configured with quick-read. When I attempt
> to
> > do something that reads the contents of every file (e.g. take a tar of
> it)
> > the glusterfs mount process just continues to grow until it's used all
> the
> > memory of the client which then becomes unresponsive of course. Setting
> the
> > timeout value doesn't help this because, without a max cache size and
> > pruning, old files are not flushed out of the cache until they are read
> or
> > written again - which doesn't happen with a sequential access of all
> > files...
> >
> > This seems like a bug to me %-}  Any comments?
> >
> > [aside: where is the gluster bug list held/managed?]
> >
>
>
> What version of GlusterFS?
>
> File your bug at http://bugs.gluster.com
>
> Chida
>
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Raghavendra G


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