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
