[ovirt-users] VDSM memory consumption

Thu Mar 26 08:33:51 EDT 2015

Hello Everyone,

I did create the original BZ on this. In the mean time, lab system I
used is dismantled and the production system is yet to deploy.

As I wrote in BZ1147148 [1], I experienced two different issues. One,
one big mem leak of about 15MiB/h and a smaller one, ~300KiB. These seem
unrelated.

The larger leak was indeed related to SSL in some way; not necessarily
M2Crypto. However, after disabling SSL this was gone leaving the smaller
leak.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147148
On Mo, 2015-03-09 at 23:49 +0100, Matt . wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also see this on the latest 3.5 version, I'm thinking about setting
> up a cronjob to restart vdsm every night.
I did the same thing. In general, it seems to be a bad idea as it
compromised system stability on the long run. While VMs seem to be fine,
engine does not like this very much.

> I cannot believe that people say they don't have this issue.
This was hard for me to accept as well. I know of Markus Stockhausen and
Seven Kieske, both confirmed the small leak. This might also be some
special other service; though I started out with a minimal install of
Centos 6.
> 
> Can someone of the devs dive in maybe ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-03-09 23:29 GMT+01:00 Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com>:
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:40:51AM -0500, Darrell Budic wrote:
> >> > On Mar 9, 2015, at 4:51 AM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:58:53AM -0600, Darrell Budic wrote:
> >> >> I believe the supervdsm leak was fixed, but 3.5.1 versions of vdsmd still leaks slowly, ~300k/hr, yes.
> >> >>
> >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158108
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>> On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Once upon a time, Federico Alberto Sayd <fsayd at uncu.edu.ar> said:
> >> >>>> I am experiencing troubles with VDSM memory consuption.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I am running
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Engine: ovirt 3.5.1
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Nodes:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Centos 6.6
> >> >>>> VDSM 4.16.10-8
> >> >>>> Libvirt: libvirt-0.10.2-46
> >> >>>> Kernel: 2.6.32
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> When the host boots, memory consuption is normal, but after 2 or 3
> >> >>>> days running, VDSM memory consuption grows and it consumes more
> >> >>>> memory that all vm's running in the host. If I restart the vdsm
> >> >>>> service, memory consuption normalizes, but then it start growing
> >> >>>> again.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I have seen some BZ about vdsm and supervdsm about memory leaks, but
> >> >>>> I don't know if VDSM 4.6.10.8 is still affected by a related bug.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Can't help, but I see the same thing with CentOS 7 nodes and the same
> >> >>> version of vdsm.
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>
> >> >>> _______________________________________________
> >> >>> Users mailing list
> >> >>> Users at ovirt.org
> >> >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >> >
> >> > 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?
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Dan.
> >>
> >> I don’t think this is crypto related, but I could try that if you still need some confirmation (and point me at a quick doc on switching to plaintext?).
> >>
> >> This is from #ovirt around November 18th I think, Saggi thought he’d found something related:
> >>
> >> 9:58:43 AM saggi: YamakasY: Found the leak
> >> 9:58:48 AM saggi: YamakasY: Or at least the flow
> >> 9:58:57 AM saggi: YamakasY: The good news is that I can reproduce
> >> 9:59:20 AM YamakasY: saggi: that's kewl!
> >> 9:59:25 AM YamakasY: saggi: what happens ?
> >> 9:59:41 AM YamakasY: I know from Telsin (ping ping!) that he sees it going faster on gluster usage
> >> tdosek left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 480 seconds). (10:00:02 AM)
> >> djasa left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving). (10:00:24 AM)
> >> mlipchuk left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.). (10:00:29 AM)
> >> laravot left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving.). (10:01:19 AM)
> >> 10:01:54 AM saggi: YamakasY: it's in getCapabilities(). Here is the RSS graph. The flatlines are when I stopped calling it and called other verbs. http://i.imgur.com/CLm0Q75.png
> >
> > I do recall what is the issue Saggi and YamakasY were dicussing (CCing
> > the pair), or if it reached fruition as a patch. It is certainly
> > something other than Bug 1158108, as the latter speak about a leak in a
> > normal working state, with no getCapabilities calls.
> >
> >
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