Re: [ovirt-users] VDSM Memory consuption

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 03:30:53PM +0000, Daniel Helgenberger wrote: > Hello, > > in my LAB cluster I run into OOM conditions frequently because of a huge > VDSM process. The memory stats from my nodes right now: > > Node A; running one VM: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 3465 vdsm 0 -20 18.6g 9.8g 8244 S 32.1 50.3 27265:21 vdsm > 7439 qemu 20 0 5641m 4.1g 4280 S 22.9 20.9 12737:08 qemu-kvm > 2912 root 15 -5 2710m 35m 5968 S 0.0 0.2 0:04.76 supervdsmServer > > Node B, running 3 VMs including HosedEngine: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 9079 vdsm 0 -20 9.9g 5.0g 7496 S 49.7 43.0 11858:06 vdsm > 3347 qemu 20 0 7749m 1.8g 5264 S 4.3 15.8 3:25.71 qemu-kvm > 18463 qemu 20 0 3865m 415m 5516 R 1.6 3.5 359:15.24 qemu-kvm > 11755 qemu 20 0 3873m 276m 5336 S 80.5 2.3 21639:39 qemu-kvm > > Basically VDSM consumes more then all my VMs. > > I thought of VDSM as a 'supervisor' process for qemu-kvm? > > I attached recend vdsm logs as well as a screen shot. Thanks for your report. It sounds like Bug 1130045 - Very high memory consumption which we believe is due to python-ioprocess.