HI Krishna,
I am also wondering about memory. I restart glusterfs every night
because it grows to 800MB of memory when I try to copy some backups to
the mount because I don't have very much memory. Is this a typical
memory footprint? Is there a way to limit how much memory will be used
by either the client or the server?
This is a brand new x86_64 Centos 5.0 box, compiled with
fuse-2.7.0-glfs5 and glusterfs-1.3.7
Here's an example from top in the middle of my current backups:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30880 root 15 0 695m 613m 760 R 12 7.7 86:26.78
glusterfs
The backup is just an rsync to the mount of about 5 million files.
The client spec is a simple one:
volume brick
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client # for TCP/IP transport
option remote-host 192.168.2.5 # IP address of the remote brick
option remote-port 6996
option remote-subvolume brick_thr # name of the remote volume
end-volume
volume brick-wb
type performance/write-behind
subvolumes brick
end-volume
volume readahead
type performance/read-ahead
subvolumes brick-wb
end-volume
it goes to one simple server, which uses a lot of memory as well:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22929 root 15 0 452m 242m 764 S 6 12.1 132:02.51
glusterfsd
its spec file is:
volume brick_posix
type storage/posix
option directory /home/3dm/pool/brick
end-volume
volume brick_locks
type features/posix-locks
subvolumes brick_posix
end-volume
volume brick_thr
type performance/io-threads
option thread-count 16
subvolumes brick_locks
end-volume
volume server
type protocol/server
option transport-type tcp/server # For TCP/IP transport
option bind-address 192.168.2.5 # Default is to listen on all
interfaces
option listen-port 6996
subvolumes brick_thr
option auth.ip.brick_thr.allow * # Allow access to "brick" volume
end-volume
thanks,
:august
On 10/24/07, Krishna Srinivas <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Karl,
Your glusterfsd config is simple with only 4 translators.
Is the problem seen every time you run your script?
Can you run the script using a simpler client config file? just
connect the client to a single server (no afr/unify etc on the
client side)
just have the folloing in your client spec and see if the glusterfsd
memory grows:
---
volume sxx04
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx04b
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
----
On 10/23/07, Karl Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
Hello Krishna,
I have 5 servers running the client and 4 servers running the brick
server. In the config I was testing, only 3 of the brick servers are used.
I have scripts running on the 5 servers that open images of 5k to 20k
and create thumbnails for those images of about 4k. All files are
written in a hash directory structure.
After reading and creating a lot of files (1 million for example), I
can see that the memory usage for the glusterfsd have grown substancially.
Software versions:
glusterfs-1.3.4
fuse-2.7.0-glfs4
<<-- glusterfs-server.vol -->>
volume brick-posix
type storage/posix
option directory /data/glusterfs/dataspace
end-volume
volume brick-ns
type storage/posix
option directory /data/glusterfs/namespace
end-volume
volume brick
type performance/io-threads
option thread-count 2
option cache-size 32MB
subvolumes brick-posix
end-volume
volume server
type protocol/server
option transport-type tcp/server
subvolumes brick brick-ns
option auth.ip.brick.allow 172.16.93.*
option auth.ip.brick-ns.allow 172.16.93.*
end-volume
<<-- end of glusterfs-server.vol -->>
<<-- start client.sharedbig.vol -->>
volume sxx01-ns
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx01b
option remote-subvolume brick-ns
end-volume
volume sxx02-ns
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx02b
option remote-subvolume brick-ns
end-volume
volume sxx03-ns
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx03b
option remote-subvolume brick-ns
end-volume
volume sxx04-ns
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx04b
option remote-subvolume brick-ns
end-volume
volume sxx01
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx01b
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
volume sxx02
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host sxx02b
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
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