Hi Larry, What is the client and server configuration? Instead of killing glusterfs process, can you do "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and check whether memory usage comes down? regards, On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Larry Bates <larry.bates at vitalesafe.com>wrote: > I've successfully set up GlusterFS 3.0 with a single server. I brought on > a 2nd server and setup AFR and have been working through the mirroring > process. I started an "ls -alR" to trigger a complete mirror of all files > between the two servers. After running for about 16 hours I started getting > kernel out of memory errors. Looking at top I see: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 2561 root 15 0 13.0g 8.9g 860 S 7 91.6 60:56.02 glusterfs > > Seems that the client has used up all my memory (RAM and SWAP). Killing > the process returned all the memory to the OS. > > BTW - I'm working on a 2.3Tb store that contains about 2.5 million files in > 65K folders. > > Thoughts? > > Larry Bates > vitalEsafe, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Raghavendra G
