On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:39:47PM +0200, Olivier Le Cam wrote: > It's quite easy to repeat the problem just issuing an "ls -lR" on the > client: glusterfs memory usage slowly increases (it needs less than 30 > minutes to acquire the whole RAM available before swap is in action): > > Mem: 8193660k total, 8143884k used, 49776k free, 97156k buffers > Swap: 7815580k total, 2063112k used, 5752468k free, 726764k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 30245 root 20 0 7564m 5.3g 1116 S 1 68.4 1:06.66 glusterfs > > Removing all optimization translators does not really fix the problem > although the memory usage is growing significantly slower. > > I also tried echoing 3 to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches as suggested by > Raghavendra G. ealier, with no effect at all. > > Any thoughts? Seems to be the same problem we discuss in the "old story..." thread. Amon Ott did some tests, but there is still no solution. Krzysztof
