Memory problems / leak in 2.0.6?

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Hi
I did see that suggestion in an earlier mail in this list. It did not affect
the glusterfs memory usage at all.

Regards
Roland

2010/1/1 Raghavendra G <raghavendra at gluster.com>

> 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
>>
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>
>
> --
> Raghavendra G
>
>


-- 
Roland Rabben
Founder & CEO Jotta AS
Cell: +47 90 85 85 39
Phone: +47 21 04 29 00
Email: roland at jotta.no


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