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

Kaleb Keithley kkeithle at redhat.com
Tue Feb 2 14:10:34 UTC 2016 


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Serkan Çoban" <cobanserkan at gmail.com>
> 
> Will those patches be available in 3.7.7?

3.7.7 was released yesterday, so no.

But 3.7.7 has another issue; there won't be packages available from download.gluster.org.

Pranith has already indicated that we will fix the other issue and include these fixed in 3.7.8, which will be released sometime next week.

> 
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Koduri <skoduri at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 02/01/2016 02:48 PM, Xavier Hernandez wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 01/02/16 09:54, Soumya Koduri wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 02/01/2016 01:39 PM, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Wait. It seems to be my bad.
> >>>>
> >>>> Before unmounting I do drop_caches (2), and glusterfs process CPU usage
> >>>> goes to 100% for a while. I haven't waited for it to drop to 0%, and
> >>>> instead perform unmount. It seems glusterfs is purging inodes and that's
> >>>> why it uses 100% of CPU. I've re-tested it, waiting for CPU usage to
> >>>> become normal, and got no leaks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Will verify this once again and report more.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, if that works, how could I limit inode cache for FUSE client? I do
> >>>> not want it to go beyond 1G, for example, even if I have 48G of RAM on
> >>>> my server.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Its hard-coded for now. For fuse the lru limit (of the inodes which are
> >>> not active) is (32*1024).
> >>
> >>
> >> This is not exact for current implementation. The inode memory pool is
> >> configured with 32*1024 entries, but the lru limit is set to infinite:
> >> currently inode_table_prune() takes lru_limit == 0 as infinite, and the
> >> inode table created by fuse is initialized with 0.
> >>
> >> Anyway this should not be a big problem in normal conditions. After
> >> having fixed the incorrect nlookup count for "." and ".." directory
> >> entries, when the kernel detects memory pressure and sends inode
> >> forgets, the memory will be released.
> >>
> >>> One of the ways to address this (which we were discussing earlier) is to
> >>> have an option to configure inode cache limit.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think this will need more thinking. I've made a fast test forcing
> >> lru_limit to a small value and weird errors have appeared (probably from
> >> inodes being expected to exist when kernel sends new requests). Anyway I
> >> haven't spent time on this. I haven't tested in on master either.
> >
> >
> > Oh okay. Thanks for checking.
> >
> > -Soumya
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Xavi
> >>
> >>> If that sounds good, we
> >>> can then check on if it has to be global/volume-level,
> >>> client/server/both.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Soumya
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 01.02.2016 09:54, Soumya Koduri написав:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 01/31/2016 03:05 PM, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Unfortunately, this patch doesn't help.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> RAM usage on "find" finish is ~9G.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Here is statedump before drop_caches: https://gist.github.com/
> >>>>>> fc1647de0982ab447e20
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [mount/fuse.fuse - usage-type gf_common_mt_inode_ctx memusage]
> >>>>> size=706766688
> >>>>> num_allocs=2454051
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And after drop_caches: https://gist.github.com/5eab63bc13f78787ed19
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [mount/fuse.fuse - usage-type gf_common_mt_inode_ctx memusage]
> >>>>> size=550996416
> >>>>> num_allocs=1913182
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There isn't much significant drop in inode contexts. One of the
> >>>>> reasons could be because of dentrys holding a refcount on the inodes
> >>>>> which shall result in inodes not getting purged even after
> >>>>> fuse_forget.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pool-name=fuse:dentry_t
> >>>>> hot-count=32761
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if  '32761' is the current active dentry count, it still doesn't seem
> >>>>> to match up to inode count.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Soumya
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And here is Valgrind output:
> >>>>>> https://gist.github.com/2490aeac448320d98596
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On субота, 30 січня 2016 р. 22:56:37 EET Xavier Hernandez wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> There's another inode leak caused by an incorrect counting of
> >>>>>>> lookups on directory reads.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Here's a patch that solves the problem for
> >>>>>>> 3.7:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://review.gluster.org/13324
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hopefully with this patch the
> >>>>>>> memory leaks should disapear.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Xavi
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 29.01.2016 19:09, Oleksandr
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Natalenko wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 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 :).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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