Re: [ovirt-users] VDSM memory consumption

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:33 AM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:00:14PM -0400, John Taylor wrote: >> Chris Adams <cma(a)cmadams.net&gt; writes: >> >>> Once upon a time, Sven Kieske <s.kieske(a)mittwald.de&gt; said: >>>> On 13/03/15 12:29, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: >>>>> We also face this problem since 3.5 in two different installations... >>>>> Hope it's fixed soon >>>> >>>> Nothing will get fixed if no one bothers to >>>> open BZs and send relevants log files to help >>>> track down the problems. >>> >>> There's already an open BZ: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158108 >>> >>> I'm not sure if that is exactly the same problem I'm seeing or not; my >>> vdsm process seems to be growing faster (RSS grew 952K in a 5 minute >>> period just now; VSZ didn't change). >> >> For those following this I've added a comment on the bz [1], although in >> my case the memory leak is, like Chris Adams, a lot more than the 300KiB/h >> in the original bug report by Daniel Helgenberger . >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158108 > > That's interesting (and worrying). > Could you check your suggestion by editing sampling.py so that > _get_interfaces_and_samples() returns the empty dict immediately? > Would this make the leak disappear? Looks like you’ve got something there. Just a quick test for now, watching RSS in top. I’ll let it go this way for a while and see what it looks in a few hours. System 1: 13 VMs w/ 24 interfaces between them 11:47 killed a vdsm @ 9.116G RSS (after maybe a week and a half running) 11:47: 97xxx 11:57 135544 and climbing 12:00 136400 restarted with sampling.py modified to just return empty set: def _get_interfaces_and_samples(): links_and_samples = {} return links_and_samples