from 2.0.6. I guess I 2.0.8 or 3.0 is next. I have now removed the performance/io-cache translator form my client config, and memory usage seems to be much lower. I need to test a day or two to verify that it doesn't grow out of control. Regards Roland 2010/1/1 Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com> > Thanks, Raghavendra. > > Roland, > > I would be very interested to know if you plan to move to a newer version - > that might solve some of your problems. If you do not plan to upgrade, then > I would also like to know if there are certain features in 2.0.6 which you > feel do not allow you to upgrade. > In the ideal case, we would like to have to support a fewer set of recent > versions hence the question :-). > > Regards, > Tejas. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raghavendra G" <raghavendra at gluster.com> > To: "Roland Rabben" <roland at jotta.no> > Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2010 8:41:32 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, > Mumbai, New Delhi > Subject: Re: Memory problems / leak in 2.0.6? > > Hi Roland, > > Does doing "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" bring down the memory usage? > > regards, > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Roland Rabben <roland at jotta.no> wrote: > > > Hi > > I am using Glusterfs 2.0.6 and I am experiencing some memory issues on > the > > clients. The clients will grow their memory usage to several GB's over > one > > or two days. > > This causes my app to run out of memroy and I need to restart my app and > > unmount the glusterfs volumes. > > > > I have tried adjusting the io-cache to max 512MB but this does not seem > to > > have any effect. > > My clients use replicate and distribute. > > > > From my glusterfs.vol file: > > > > volume dfs > > type cluster/distribute > > option lookup-unhashed no > > option min-free-disk 5% > > subvolumes repl-000-001-01 repl-000-001-02 repl-000-001-03 > > repl-000-001-04 repl-002-003-01 repl-002-003-02 repl-002-003-03 > > repl-002-003-04 > > end-volume > > > > # Enable write-behind to decrease write latency > > volume wb > > type performance/write-behind > > option flush-behind off > > option cache-size 64MB > > subvolumes dfs > > end-volume > > > > volume cache > > type performance/io-cache > > option cache-size 512MB > > subvolumes wb > > end-volume > > > > Is this a memory leak or is there a way to limit the memory usage on the > > clients? > > > > I am running this on Ubuntu 9.04. > > > > Regards > > > > > > -- > > Roland Rabben > > Founder & CEO Jotta AS > > Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 > > Phone: +47 21 04 29 00 > > Email: roland at jotta.no > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > > -- > Raghavendra G > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Roland Rabben Founder & CEO Jotta AS Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 Phone: +47 21 04 29 00 Email: roland at jotta.no --002354332efe227194047c1e2957--
