Once upon a time, Marcin Sobczyk <msobczyk(a)redhat.com> 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.
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Chris Adams <cma(a)cmadams.net>