[Gluster-users] Run away memory with gluster mount

Dan Ragle daniel at Biblestuph.com
Sat Feb 3 13:58:15 UTC 2018



On 2/2/2018 2:13 AM, Nithya Balachandran wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> It sounds like you might be running into [1]. The patch has been posted 
> upstream and the fix should be in the next release.
> In the meantime, I'm afraid there is no way to get around this without 
> restarting the process.
> 
> Regards,
> Nithya
> 
> [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1541264
> 

Much appreciated. Will watch for the next release and retest then.

Cheers!

Dan

> 
> On 2 February 2018 at 02:57, Dan Ragle <daniel at biblestuph.com 
> <mailto:daniel at biblestuph.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 1/30/2018 6:31 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         ----- Original Message -----
> 
>             From: "Dan Ragle" <daniel at Biblestuph.com>
>             To: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com
>             <mailto:rgowdapp at redhat.com>>, "Ravishankar N"
>             <ravishankar at redhat.com <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>>
>             Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
>             <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>, "Csaba Henk"
>             <chenk at redhat.com <mailto:chenk at redhat.com>>, "Niels de Vos"
>             <ndevos at redhat.com <mailto:ndevos at redhat.com>>, "Nithya
>             Balachandran" <nbalacha at redhat.com <mailto:nbalacha at redhat.com>>
>             Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 9:02:21 PM
>             Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Run away memory with gluster mount
> 
> 
> 
>             On 1/29/2018 2:36 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>                 ----- Original Message -----
> 
>                     From: "Ravishankar N" <ravishankar at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>>
>                     To: "Dan Ragle" <daniel at Biblestuph.com>,
>                     gluster-users at gluster.org
>                     <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>
>                     Cc: "Csaba Henk" <chenk at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:chenk at redhat.com>>, "Niels de Vos"
>                     <ndevos at redhat.com <mailto:ndevos at redhat.com>>,
>                     "Nithya Balachandran" <nbalacha at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:nbalacha at redhat.com>>,
>                     "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com
>                     <mailto:rgowdapp at redhat.com>>
>                     Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 10:23:38 AM
>                     Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Run away memory with
>                     gluster mount
> 
> 
> 
>                     On 01/27/2018 02:29 AM, Dan Ragle wrote:
> 
> 
>                         On 1/25/2018 8:21 PM, Ravishankar N wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>                             On 01/25/2018 11:04 PM, Dan Ragle wrote:
> 
>                                 *sigh* trying again to correct
>                                 formatting ... apologize for the
>                                 earlier mess.
> 
>                                 Having a memory issue with Gluster
>                                 3.12.4 and not sure how to
>                                 troubleshoot. I don't *think* this is
>                                 expected behavior.
> 
>                                 This is on an updated CentOS 7 box. The
>                                 setup is a simple two node
>                                 replicated layout where the two nodes
>                                 act as both server and
>                                 client.
> 
>                                 The volume in question:
> 
>                                 Volume Name: GlusterWWW
>                                 Type: Replicate
>                                 Volume ID:
>                                 8e9b0e79-f309-4d9b-a5bb-45d065faaaa3
>                                 Status: Started
>                                 Snapshot Count: 0
>                                 Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>                                 Transport-type: tcp
>                                 Bricks:
>                                 Brick1:
>                                 vs1dlan.mydomain.com:/glusterfs_bricks/brick1/www
>                                 Brick2:
>                                 vs2dlan.mydomain.com:/glusterfs_bricks/brick1/www
>                                 Options Reconfigured:
>                                 nfs.disable: on
>                                 cluster.favorite-child-policy: mtime
>                                 transport.address-family: inet
> 
>                                 I had some other performance options in
>                                 there, (increased
>                                 cache-size, md invalidation, etc) but
>                                 stripped them out in an
>                                 attempt to
>                                 isolate the issue. Still got the problem
>                                 without them.
> 
>                                 The volume currently contains over 1M files.
> 
>                                 When mounting the volume, I get (among
>                                 other things) a process as such:
> 
>                                 /usr/sbin/glusterfs
>                                 --volfile-server=localhost
>                                 --volfile-id=/GlusterWWW /var/www
> 
>                                 This process begins with little memory,
>                                 but then as files are
>                                 accessed in the volume the memory
>                                 increases. I setup a script that
>                                 simply reads the files in the volume one
>                                 at a time (no writes). It's
>                                 been running on and off about 12 hours
>                                 now and the resident
>                                 memory of the above process is already
>                                 at 7.5G and continues to grow
>                                 slowly. If I stop the test script the
>                                 memory stops growing,
>                                 but does not reduce. Restart the test
>                                 script and the memory begins
>                                 slowly growing again.
> 
>                                 This is obviously a contrived app
>                                 environment. With my intended
>                                 application load it takes about a week
>                                 or so for the memory to get
>                                 high enough to invoke the oom killer.
> 
> 
>                             Can you try debugging with the statedump
>                             (https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Troubleshooting/statedump/#read-a-statedump
>                             <https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Troubleshooting/statedump/#read-a-statedump>)
>                             of
>                             the fuse mount process and see what member
>                             is leaking? Take the
>                             statedumps in succession, maybe once
>                             initially during the I/O and
>                             once the memory gets high enough to hit the
>                             OOM mark.
>                             Share the dumps here.
> 
>                             Regards,
>                             Ravi
> 
> 
>                         Thanks for the reply. I noticed yesterday that
>                         an update (3.12.5) had
>                         been posted so I went ahead and updated and
>                         repeated the test
>                         overnight. The memory usage does not appear to
>                         be growing as quickly
>                         as is was with 3.12.4, but does still appear to
>                         be growing.
> 
>                         I should also mention that there is another
>                         process beyond my test app
>                         that is reading the files from the volume.
>                         Specifically, there is an
>                         rsync that runs from the second node 2-4 times
>                         an hour that reads from
>                         the GlusterWWW volume mounted on node 1. Since
>                         none of the files in
>                         that mount are changing it doesn't actually
>                         rsync anything, but
>                         nonetheless it is running and reading the files
>                         in addition to my test
>                         script. (It's a part of my intended production
>                         setup that I forgot was
>                         still running.)
> 
>                         The mount process appears to be gaining memory
>                         at a rate of about 1GB
>                         every 4 hours or so. At that rate it'll take
>                         several days before it
>                         runs the box out of memory. But I took your
>                         suggestion and made some
>                         statedumps today anyway, about 2 hours apart, 4
>                         total so far. It looks
>                         like there may already be some actionable
>                         information. These are the
>                         only registers where the num_allocs have grown
>                         with each of the four
>                         samples:
> 
>                         [mount/fuse.fuse - usage-type gf_fuse_mt_gids_t
>                         memusage]
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 08:57:31 2018: 784
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 10:55:50 2018: 831
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 12:55:15 2018: 877
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 14:58:27 2018: 908
> 
>                         [mount/fuse.fuse - usage-type
>                         gf_common_mt_fd_lk_ctx_t memusage]
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 08:57:31 2018: 5
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 10:55:50 2018: 10
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 12:55:15 2018: 15
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 14:58:27 2018: 17
> 
>                         [cluster/distribute.GlusterWWW-dht - usage-type
>                         gf_dht_mt_dht_layout_t
>                         memusage]
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 08:57:31 2018:
>                         24243596
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 10:55:50 2018:
>                         27902622
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 12:55:15 2018:
>                         30678066
>                             ---> num_allocs at Fri Jan 26 14:58:27 2018:
>                         33801036
> 
>                         Not sure the best way to get you the full dumps.
>                         They're pretty big,
>                         over 1G for all four. Also, I noticed some
>                         filepath information in
>                         there that I'd rather not share. What's the
>                         recommended next step?
> 
> 
>                 Please run the following query on statedump files and
>                 report us the
>                 results:
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep active | wc -l
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep active_size
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep lru | wc -l
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep lru_size
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep purge | wc -l
>                 # grep itable <client-statedump> | grep purge_size
> 
> 
>             Had to restart the test and have been running for 36 hours
>             now. RSS is
>             currently up to 23g.
> 
>             Working on getting a bug report with link to the dumps. In
>             the mean
>             time, I'm including the results of your above queries for
>             the first
>             dump, the 18 hour dump, and the 36 hour dump:
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep
>             active | wc -l
>             53865
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep
>             active | wc -l
>             53864
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep
>             active | wc -l
>             53864
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep
>             active_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.active_size=53864
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep
>             active_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.active_size=53863
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep
>             active_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.active_size=53863
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep lru
>             | wc -l
>             998510
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep lru
>             | wc -l
>             998510
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep lru
>             | wc -l
>             995992
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep lru_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.lru_size=998508
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep lru_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.lru_size=998508
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep lru_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.lru_size=995990
> 
> 
>         Around 1 million of inodes in lru table!! These are the inodes
>         kernel has just cached and no operation is currently progress on
>         these inodes. This could be the reason for high memory usage.
>         We've a patch being worked on (merged on experimental branch
>         currently) [1], that will help in these sceanrios. In the
>         meantime can you remount glusterfs with options
>         --entry-timeout=0 and --attribute-timeout=0? This will make sure
>         that kernel won't cache inodes/attributes of the file and should
>         bring down the memory usage.
> 
>         I am curious to know what is your data-set like? Is it the case
>         of too many directories and files present in deep directories? I
>         am wondering whether a significant number of inodes cached by
>         kernel are there to hold dentry structure in kernel.
> 
>         [1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18665/
>         <https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18665/>
> 
> 
>     OK, remounted with your recommended attributes and repeated the
>     test. Now the mount process looks like this:
> 
>     /usr/sbin/glusterfs --attribute-timeout=0 --entry-timeout=0
>     --volfile-server=localhost --volfile-id=/GlusterWWW /var/www
> 
>     However after running for 36 hours it's again at about 23g (about
>     the same place it was on the first test).
> 
>     A few metrics from the 36 hour mark:
> 
>     num_allocs for [cluster/distribute.GlusterWWW-dht - usage-type
>     gf_dht_mt_dht_layout_t memusage] is 109140094. Seems at least
>     somewhat similar to the original test, which had 117901593 at the 36
>     hour mark.
> 
>     The dump file at the 36 hour mark had nothing for lru or lru_size.
>     However, at the dump two hours prior it had:
> 
>     # grep itable glusterdump.67299.dump.1517493361 | grep lru | wc -l
>     998510
>     # grep itable glusterdump.67299.dump.1517493361 | grep lru_size
>     xlator.mount.fuse.itable.lru_size=998508
> 
>     and the same thing for the dump four hours later. Are these values
>     only relevant when the ls -R is actually running? I'm thinking the
>     36 hour dump may have caught the ls -R between runs there (?)
> 
>     The data set is multiple Web sites. I know there's some litter there
>     we can clean up, but I'd guess not more than 200-300k files or so.
>     The biggest culprit is a single directory that we use as a
>     multi-purpose file store, with filenames stored as GUIDs and linked
>     to a DB. That directory currently has 500k+ files. Another directory
>     serves a similar purpose and has about 66k files in it. The rest is
>     generally distributed more "normally", I.E., a mixed nesting of
>     directories and files.
> 
>     Cheers!
> 
>     Dan
> 
> 
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep
>             purge | wc -l
>             1
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep
>             purge | wc -l
>             1
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep
>             purge | wc -l
>             1
> 
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517104561 | grep
>             purge_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.purge_size=0
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517169361 | grep
>             purge_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.purge_size=0
>             # grep itable glusterdump.153904.dump.1517234161 | grep
>             purge_size
>             xlator.mount.fuse.itable.purge_size=0
> 
>             Cheers,
> 
>             Dan
> 
> 
> 
>                     I've CC'd the fuse/ dht devs to see if these data
>                     types have potential
>                     leaks. Could you raise a bug with the volume info
>                     and a (dropbox?) link
>                     from which we can download the dumps? You can
>                     remove/replace the
>                     filepaths from them.
> 
>                     Regards.
>                     Ravi
> 
> 
>                         Cheers!
> 
>                         Dan
> 
> 
>                                 Is there potentially something
>                                 misconfigured here?
> 
>                                 I did see a reference to a memory leak
>                                 in another thread in this
>                                 list, but that had to do with the
>                                 setting of quotas, I don't have
>                                 any quotas set on my system.
> 
>                                 Thanks,
> 
>                                 Dan Ragle
>                                 daniel at Biblestuph.com
> 
>                                 On 1/25/2018 11:04 AM, Dan Ragle wrote:
> 
>                                     Having a memory issue with Gluster
>                                     3.12.4 and not sure how to
>                                     troubleshoot. I don't *think* this
>                                     is expected behavior. This is on an
>                                     updated CentOS 7 box. The setup is a
>                                     simple two node replicated layout
>                                     where the two nodes act as both
>                                     server and client. The volume in
>                                     question: Volume Name: GlusterWWW
>                                     Type: Replicate Volume ID:
>                                     8e9b0e79-f309-4d9b-a5bb-45d065faaaa3
>                                     Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0
>                                     Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>                                     Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1:
>                                     vs1dlan.mydomain.com:/glusterfs_bricks/brick1/www
>                                     Brick2:
>                                     vs2dlan.mydomain.com:/glusterfs_bricks/brick1/www
>                                     Options
>                                     Reconfigured:
>                                     nfs.disable: on
>                                     cluster.favorite-child-policy: mtime
>                                     transport.address-family: inet I had
>                                     some other performance options in
>                                     there, (increased cache-size, md
>                                     invalidation, etc) but stripped them
>                                     out in an attempt to isolate the
>                                     issue. Still got the problem without
>                                     them. The volume currently contains
>                                     over 1M files. When mounting the
>                                     volume, I get (among other things) a
>                                     process as such:
>                                     /usr/sbin/glusterfs
>                                     --volfile-server=localhost
>                                     --volfile-id=/GlusterWWW
>                                     /var/www This process begins with
>                                     little memory, but then as files are
>                                     accessed in the volume the memory
>                                     increases. I setup a script that
>                                     simply reads the files in the volume
>                                     one at a time (no writes). It's
>                                     been running on and off about 12
>                                     hours now and the resident memory of
>                                     the above process is already at 7.5G
>                                     and continues to grow slowly.
>                                     If I
>                                     stop the test script the memory
>                                     stops growing, but does not reduce.
>                                     Restart the test script and the
>                                     memory begins slowly growing again.
>                                     This
>                                     is obviously a contrived app
>                                     environment. With my intended
>                                     application
>                                     load it takes about a week or so for
>                                     the memory to get high enough to
>                                     invoke the oom killer. Is there
>                                     potentially something misconfigured
>                                     here? Thanks, Dan Ragle
>                                     daniel at Biblestuph.com
> 
> 
> 
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