I'm curious if this was ever resolved/commented on? Were you able to finish the rebalance? On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Emir Imamagic <eimamagi at srce.hr> wrote: > Hello, > > we are using glusterfs 3.2.5 and have a distributed volume with over 10M > directories. We recently added new node and initiated rebalance. After > several days glusterfsd consumed all the memory and was killed by the > kernel. At that stage it was still doing the layout rebalance and got over > 9M directories. > > Rebalance reports failed status: > # gluster volume rebalance vol status > rebalance failed > > In the glusterd log however I found: > ?I [glusterd-rebalance.c:473:glusterd_defrag_start] 0-rebalance: rebalance > on /etc/glusterd/mount/vol complete > > I stumbled upon the patch on gluster-devel which mentions memory leak > related rebalance: > http://dev.gluster.com/pipermail/glusterfs/2011-June/003369.html. But can't > figure out if this was included in the 3.2.5 release. > > Another question is - is it safe to initiate rebalance of the data? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Emir Imamagic > Sektor za racunalne sustave > Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, Sveucilisni racunski centar (Srce), www.srce.unizg.hr > Emir.Imamagic at srce.hr, tel: +385 1 616 5809, fax: +385 1 616 5559 > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
