> I found relatively large allocations in the qemu smaps and checked the contents. It contained several hundred repetitions of osd and pool names. We use the default builds on Ubuntu 20.04. Is there a special memory allocator in place that might not clean up properly? I think the promise from the OS could be stated as "pages are guaranteed to get cleaned before handed over to the next process", but if that happens at free() or any time in between is probably later than one thinks. (zero-fill-on-demand is a thing) Some OSes have page clearing done in a maximum lowprio process-or-thread that uses otherwise idle CPU time to pre-clean pages, but if that is a win or not seems to depend a lot on if this destroys your L1 caches for the running processes and so forth. So just as with disks, finding memory pages with junk data still in them is not a huge surprise. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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