[Gluster-users] Memory leak in gluster 5.4

Sanju Rakonde srakonde at redhat.com
Fri Jul 19 06:03:16 UTC 2019


Diego, please raise a bug and share the periodic statedumps of processes
which have memory leaks.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:53 PM Diego Remolina <dijuremo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you using FUSE mounts to access the file system? I have observed the
> same issue all the way from 3.x series to 4.x series. I have to reboot
> servers monthly, at most every 45 days because gluster keeps eating the ram.
>
> As you can see, 30 days in we are right at around 30GB of RAM used.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Diego
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:15 AM Sanju Rakonde <srakonde at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Christian,
>>
>> To debug memory leaks, we need periodic statedumps of respective
>> processes. Please provide the statedumps.
>>
>> I suspect that you are hitting
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694612. This bug is
>> addressed in release-5.6
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sanju
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 1:30 PM Christian Meyer <chrmeyer at chrmeyer.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> I'm using a Gluster 5.4 Setup with 3 Nodes with three volumes
>>> (replicated) (one is the gluster shared storage).
>>> Each node has 64GB of RAM.
>>> Over the time of ~2 month the memory consumption of glusterd grow
>>> linear. An the end glusterd used ~45% of RAM the brick processes
>>> together ~43% of RAM.
>>> I think this is a memory leak.
>>>
>>> I made a coredump of the processes (glusterd, bricks) (zipped ~500MB),
>>> hope this will help you to find the problem.
>>>
>>> Could you please have a look on it?
>>>
>>> Download Coredumps:
>>> https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/glusterlogs/gluster_coredump.zip
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Christian
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Sanju
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>

-- 
Thanks,
Sanju
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