How much ram does the client machine have? avati 2007/12/30, Sascha Ottolski <ottolski@xxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if anyone may have a hint how to track down a memory leak in > glusterfs client. The leak is easily reproduced (at least here :-)) by > sending a "rsync -avP" or "find -exec head -c1" over the mountpoint, that > carries millions of files. The leak happens while the rsync scans the > directory, before transferring any files. > > I didn't collect any hard numbers up to now, but I've seen glusterfs proc > growing to about 3.5 GB after scanning 5 mio. or so files. The size of the > process never seems to shrink, and I believe that it's not growing while > tranferring data (I have a bonnie running for a while now, which doesn't > seem > to add to the process size). > > I've seen a similar memory consumption in 1.3.0-pre4, 1.3.7 and even with > the > latest tla checkout, the latter accompanied with fuse-1.7.0-glf7, on a > debian > 4.0, on amd64 hardware. > > It appears as if switching on or off read-ahead/write-behind doesn't make > much > of a difference when it comes to the leaking, but I certainly need to > check > that more thoroughly. Other translators in the picture are afr and unify. > > And of course I'm very much wondering if other people can reproduce this > phenomenon... > > > Thanks, > > Sascha > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
