[ovirt-users] ?3.4: VDSM Memory consumption

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Tue Sep 30 15:03:08 UTC 2014 

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:23:47AM +0000, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> 
> On 30.09.2014 11:57, Piotr Kliczewski wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>
> >> To: "Piotr Kliczewski" <pkliczew at redhat.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:50:28 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users]?3.4: VDSM Memory consumption
> >>
> >> Hello Piotr,
> >>
> >> On 30.09.2014 08:37, Piotr Kliczewski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> >>>> To: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>,
> >>>> pkliczew at redhat.com
> >>>> Cc: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:11:42 AM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users]?3.4: VDSM Memory consumption
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:02:19PM +0000, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> >>>>> Hello Francesco,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Daniel Helgenberger
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>> F: +49/30/2408781-10
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> >>>>> D-10115 BERLIN
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 29.09.2014, at 22:19, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>>> From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>
> >>>>>>> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
> >>>>>>> Cc: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> >>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 2:54:13 PM
> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users]    3.4: VDSM Memory consumption
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hello Francesco,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 29.09.2014 13:55, Francesco Romani wrote:
> >>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>>>>> From: "Daniel Helgenberger" <daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de>
> >>>>>>>>> To: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 12:25:22 PM
> >>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users]    3.4: VDSM Memory consumption
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Dan,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I just reply to the list since I do not want to clutter BZ:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> While migrating VMs is easy (and the sampling is already running),
> >>>>>>>>> can
> >>>>>>>>> someone tell me the correct polling port to block with iptables?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> there is indeed a memory profiling patch under discussion:
> >>>>>>>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/32019/
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> but for your case we'll need a backport to 3.4.x and clearer install
> >>>>>>>> instructions,
> >>>>>>>> which I'll prepare as soon as possible.
> >>>>>>> I updated the BZ (and are now blocking 54321/tcp on one of my hosts).
> >>>>>>> and verified it is not reachable. As  general info: This system I am
> >>>>>>> using is my LAB / Test / eval setup for a final deployment for ovirt
> >>>>>>> (then 3.5) in production; so it will go away some time in the future (a
> >>>>>>> few weeks / months). If I am the only one experiencing this problem
> >>>>>>> then
> >>>>>>> you might be better of allocating resources elsewhere ;)
> >>>>>> Thanks for your understanding :)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Unfortunately it is true that developer resources aren't so abundant,
> >>>>>> but it is also true that memleaks should never be discarded easily and
> >>>>>> without
> >>>>>> due investigation, considering the nature and the role of VDSM.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, I'm all in for further investigation regarding this issue.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> As for your question: if I understood correctly what you are asking
> >>>>>>>> (still catching up the thread), if you are trying to rule out the
> >>>>>>>> stats
> >>>>>>>> polling
> >>>>>>>> made by Engine to this bad leak, one simple way to test is just to
> >>>>>>>> shutdown
> >>>>>>>> Engine,
> >>>>>>>> and let VDSMs run unguarded on hypervisors. You'll be able to command
> >>>>>>>> these
> >>>>>>>> VDSMs using vdsClient or restarting Engine.
> >>>>>>> As I said in my BZ comment this is not an option right now, but if
> >>>>>>> understand the matter correctly IPTABLES reject should ultimately do
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> same?
> >>>>>> Definitely yes! Just do whatever it is more convenient for you.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> As you might have already seen in the BZ comment the leak stopped after
> >>>>> blocking the port. Though this is clearly no permanent option - please
> >>>>> let
> >>>>> me know if I can be of any more assistance!
> >>>> The immediate suspect in this situation is M2Crypto. Could you verify
> >>>> that by re-opening the firewall and setting ssl=False in vdsm.conf?
> >>>>
> >>>> You should disable ssl on Engine side and restart both Engine and Vdsm
> >>>> (too bad I do not recall how that's done on Engine: Piotr, can you help?).
> >>>>
> >>> In vdc_options table there is option EncryptHostCommunication.
> >> Please confirm the following procedure is correct:
> >>
> >> 1. Change Postgres table value:
> >> # sudo -u postgres psql -U postgres engine -c "update vdc_options set
> >> option_value = 'false' where option_name = 'EncryptHostCommunication';"
> >> engine=# SELECT * from vdc_options where
> >> option_name='EncryptHostCommunication';
> >>  option_id |       option_name        | option_value | version
> >> -----------+--------------------------+--------------+---------
> >>        335 | EncryptHostCommunication | false        | general
> >> (1 row)
> >>
> >> 2. Restart engine
> >> 3. On the hosts;
> >> grep ssl /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf
> >> #ssl = true
> >> ssl = false
> >>
> >> 4. restart VDSM
> >>
> >> I assume I have to set 'ssl = false' this on on all hosts?
> >>> Please to set it to false and restart the engine.
> >>>
> > I believe that you need to update a bit more on vdsm side.
> > Please follow [1] section "Configure ovirt-engine and vdsm to work in non-secure mode"
> >
> > There is wrong name of the option and it should be EncryptHostCommunication.
> >
> > [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Developers_All_In_One
> I forgot; I suppose hosted-engine-ha is out of order because of disabled
> ssl?

Indeed. And in hosted-engine, too, I need someone else's help (Sando?)
to tell how to disable ssl.

> hosted-engine --connect-storage
> Connecting Storage Server
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsClient.py", line 2578, in <module>
>     code, message = commands[command][0](commandArgs)
>   File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsClient.py", line 712, in connectStorageServer
>     res = self.s.connectStorageServer(serverType, spUUID, conList)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
>     verbose=self.__verbose
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1235, in request
>     self.send_content(h, request_body)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1349, in send_content
>     connection.endheaders()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 908, in endheaders
>     self._send_output()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 780, in _send_output
>     self.send(msg)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 739, in send
>     self.connect()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/vdsm/SecureXMLRPCServer.py",
> line 195, in connect
>     cert_reqs=self.cert_reqs)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 342, in wrap_socket
>     suppress_ragged_eofs=suppress_ragged_eofs)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 120, in __init__
>     self.do_handshake()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.py", line 279, in do_handshake
>     self._sslobj.do_handshake()
> SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:492: EOF occurred in violation of protocol

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