[Gluster-users] glusterFS (v3.0.3) memory leaks?

[Krzysztof Strasburger]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:39:47PM +0200, Olivier Le Cam wrote:
> It's quite easy to repeat the problem just issuing an "ls -lR" on the 
> client: glusterfs memory usage slowly increases (it needs less than 30 
> minutes to acquire the whole RAM available before swap is in action):
> 
> Mem:   8193660k total,  8143884k used,    49776k free,    97156k buffers
> Swap:  7815580k total,  2063112k used,  5752468k free,   726764k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 
> 
> 30245 root      20   0 7564m 5.3g 1116 S    1 68.4   1:06.66 glusterfs 
> 
> Removing all optimization translators does not really fix the problem 
> although the memory usage is growing significantly slower.
> 
> I also tried echoing 3 to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as suggested by 
> Raghavendra G. ealier, with no effect at all.
> 
> Any thoughts?
Seems to be the same problem we discuss in the "old story..." thread.
Amon Ott did some tests, but there is still no solution.
Krzysztof