Krzysztof Strasburger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:35:32PM +0530, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: >> Krzysztof Strasburger wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:48:44AM +0530, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: >>>> This is a known problem. See a previous email on the devel list about it >>>> at: >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/1469 >>>> >>>> A bug is filed is at: >>>> http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=545 >>>> >>>> For more info on the drop_caches mentioned in that gluster-devel thread, >>>> see: >>>> http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html >>>> >>>> Do let us know if dropping caches as shown in that thread helps. >>> Dear Shehjar, >>> thank you, but drop_caches really is not the Holy Grail of this problem. >>> It simply does not change anything, to set it to something != 0. >>> Amon Ott figured it out, that forget() is called, but memory is not freed >>> anyway. >> Of course, just doing drop_caches is not the silver bullet here. In some >> cases, it needs to be preceded by a sync. What is your experience with that? >> >> In any case, if Ott is right, then we might have a memory leak. The best >> step is to file a bug. > Shehjar - I have sent the response to your private mail; sorry for that. > Syncing is IMHO irrelevant here, as there are no dirty buffers to be > written out to fs. The files are only opened, stated and closed. > I filed related bug report in ancient days, when the bug database was hosted on > savannah. If I remember correctly, it has been closed in the meantime. > Should I file a new report, or find the old one and reopen it (if it is closed)? > Krzysztof > We'll prefer having the old one re-opened if you can find it, if not, feel free to file a new one. -Shehjar > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
