[ovirt-devel] Re: vdsmd memory leak

Once upon a time, Marcin Sobczyk <msobczyk(a)redhat.com&gt; said: > Python mem profiling is hard... I already tackled the VDSM memory > leak problem once. > VDSM was growing, but not at a scale that Chris is describing. Tried > out different tools, > but got to a point, where enforcing periodic garbage collecting made > VDSM mem usage > constant, so the conclusion made there was no mem leaks. Yeah, I gave it a try myself (despite not being very good at Python; been a system admin too long so I'm all about perl :) ), and didn't get anywhere. > Chris, if I understood you correctly, a single machine suffices to > reproduce your issue? > One that acts as a host with hosted engine on it + iscsi storage? > If so, maybe I/you could construct a VM with a reproducible > environment and share? > Having something like this would make investigating this issue much > more reliable. I don't think I've tried to reproduce it on a single machine setup. I think I've always gone ahead and added at least a second machine (even if there was no VM other than the engine); stopping with one to see if it happens is a good idea. My dev cluster is actually down at the moment (a dead UPS and nearby road/bridge construction are a bad combination); I'll get it back online (and on a better UPS hopefully!) today. By "construct a VM" - do you mean building a setup inside a VM (with nested virtualization), so everything is local? My dev cluster iSCSI SAN is targetcli on Linux (the prod setups are all EqualLogics), so I know how to set that up.

Thank you for your help.