Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi, > > I use multipath tools to manage the multiple ways through the SAN connected > via FC. The server sees two paths per LUN. There are 15 LUNs presented to the > server. > > I upgraded two server to SLES 11, installed latest patches, running kernel: > Linux server1 2.6.27.29-0.1-xen #1 SMP 2009-08-15 17:53:59 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > multipath-tools-0.4.8-40.4.1 > > There I recognized a fairly large amount of memory used by multipathd: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 5367 root RT 0 238m 140m 2804 S 0 28.1 0:34.70 multipathd > > I see the huge memory consumption on both of the servers. > > > On a different server, not yet upgraded, running SLES 10 SP2, with different > SAN storages applied, there I run kernel: > Linux server2 2.6.16.60-0.34-xen #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:59:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > with multipath tools: > multipath-tools-0.4.7-34.40 > There I have 20 LUNs presented, and the server sees 4 paths per LUN, I in top > a much fewer memory consumption: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 4796 root RT 0 11928 4808 2220 S 0 1.6 0:01.37 multipathd > > > However, both of the servers running SLES 11 work fine so far, no "errors" > recognized. I still wonder whether the large memory consumption is correct, as > I expected sth. similar as on the SLES10 SP2 hosts. > Below the configuration file I use on the SLES 11 servers. > This is a known regression with SLES11. Please update to the latest maintenance release. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
