[Gluster-users] Upgrading Gluster 3.5.3 to 3.5.7

[Niels de Vos]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:41:55AM +0000, Martel, Michael H wrote:
> In case anyone cares, I did this upgrade yesterday.  I unmounted the
> clients, stopped the volume, and stopped the gluster-server service.
> Then apt-get install the new packages and restart everything.  
> 
> Everything came back up and is working fine.  It even appears to have
> fixed the memory leak that developed after the last round of debian
> wheezy updates.

Great to hear, thanks for reporting this!

Niels

> 
> Michael
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>    Michael H. Martel              | Director of Data Center Administration
>    michael.martel at vsc.edu         | Systems and Security Administrator
>    Vermont State Colleges         | PH:802-224-3010 FX:802-224-3035
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Michael H. Martel
> Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 5:01 PM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: [Gluster-users] Upgrading Gluster 3.5.3 to 3.5.7
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I have inherited a Debian Wheezy system running Gluster 3.5.3 .
> 
> The sysadmin who was responsible for it, has since moved on and left no documentation.  Can I safely do an apt-get upgrade and upgrade to the latest 3.5.7 for Debian without any special steps ?  I know that I need to shut down the clients and the server, then upgrade the clients and the server, and then restart all of them.
> 
> The reason that I'm looking at doing the upgrade is that recently, (after a
> reboot) we're seeing the system running out of memory and paging space within 48 hours of a reboot.  Previously the system had been up for over a year.
> 
> I think that our new Network Security person, started scanning the gluster server with Nessus about the same time our trouble started.  I'm looking to whack him with a wet noodle and get him to stop that.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Michael
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>   --------------------------------o---------------------------------
>    Michael H. Martel              | Director of Data Center Administration
>    michael.martel at vsc.edu         | Systems and Security Administrator
>    Vermont State Colleges         | PH:802-224-3010 FX:802-224-3035
> 
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