Re: [Gluster-devel] Client memory footprint

[Gordan Bobic]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:48:04 +0530, Pavan T C <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2011 09:02 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Emmanuel Dreyfus<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > > Another issue: glusterfs client eats a lot of memory. It grows up 
> > > as big
> > > as 222 Mo in a few minutes. Here is top(1) output:
> > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU 
> > > COMMAND
> > > 19913 root   83    0    222M  122M RUN        6:52 42.97% 42.97% 
> > > glusterfsd
> > >
> > > I do not think there is a leak, since that remain fairly stable. 
> > > That is
> > > still big. Is it a number considered reasonable? Is there a way to 
> > > tune
> > > memory usage for smaller systems (cache size?)
> >
> > No answer to that one. Are the numbers I have something common, or 
> > is
> > there a problem to fix?
>
> This is normal.

Perhaps a more appropriate question would be: "How can this be 
improved?"

Gordan