[ovirt-users] VDSM memory consumption

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 09:51:34 UTC 2015


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>
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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.



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