[ovirt-users] VDSM memory consumption

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> said:
> I'm afraid that we are yet to find a solution for this issue, which is
> completly different from the horrible leak of supervdsm < 4.16.7.
> 
> Could you corroborate the claim of
>     Bug 1147148 - M2Crypto usage in vdsm leaks memory
> ? Does the leak disappear once you start using plaintext transport?

So, to confirm, it looks like to do that, the steps would be:

- In the [vars] section of /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf, set "ssl = false".
- Restart the vdsmd service.

Is that all that is needed?  Is it safe to restart vdsmd on a node with
active VMs?

-- 
Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>