from 2.0.6. I guess I 2.0.8 or 3.0 is next.
I have now removed the performance/io-cache translator form my client
config, and memory usage seems to be much lower. I need to test a day or two
to verify that it doesn''t grow out of control.
Regards
Roland
2010/1/1 Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com>
> Thanks, Raghavendra.
>
> Roland,
>
> I would be very interested to know if you plan to move to a newer version -
> that might solve some of your problems. If you do not plan to upgrade, then
> I would also like to know if there are certain features in 2.0.6 which you
> feel do not allow you to upgrade.
> In the ideal case, we would like to have to support a fewer set of recent
> versions hence the question :-).
>
> Regards,
> Tejas.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raghavendra G" <raghavendra at gluster.com>
> To: "Roland Rabben" <roland at jotta.no>
> Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 1, 2010 8:41:32 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata,
> Mumbai, New Delhi
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Memory problems / leak in 2.0.6?
>
> 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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