hi Ling Ho, It seems like you are using rdma, could you confirm? I am suspecting a memory leak. Could you help me confirm if that is the case. Please post the output of the following: 1) when you start the brick perform 'kill -USR1 <pid-of-brick>' This will save a file /tmp/glusterdump.<pid-of-brick> 2) mv /tmp/glusterdump.<pid-of-brick> /tmp/glusterdump.<pid-of-brick>.pre 3) Run the brick for a while and observe 'top -p <pid-of-brick>' to see if 'RES' filed is increasing. After it increases by 1G or so do one more 'kill -USR1 <pid-of-brick>' Now attach the outputs of both /tmp/glusterdump.<pid-of-brick> /tmp/glusterdump.<pid-of-brick>.pre to this mail. Do let us know the operations that are performed on the system to re-create this case in our test labs. Pranith. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ling Ho" <ling at slac.stanford.edu> To: "Anand Avati" <anand.avati at gmail.com> Cc: Gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 5:11:12 AM Subject: Re: Brick crashes This is the core file from the crash just now [root at psanaoss213 /]# ls -al core* -rw------- 1 root root 4073594880 Jun 8 15:05 core.22682