[ovirt-users] VDSM memory consumption

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:00:14PM -0400, John Taylor wrote:
> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> writes:
> 
> > Once upon a time, Sven Kieske <s.kieske at mittwald.de> said:
> >> On 13/03/15 12:29, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
> >> > We also face this problem since 3.5 in two different installations...
> >> > Hope it's fixed soon
> >> 
> >> Nothing will get fixed if no one bothers to
> >> open BZs and send relevants log files to help
> >> track down the problems.
> >
> > There's already an open BZ:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158108
> >
> > I'm not sure if that is exactly the same problem I'm seeing or not; my
> > vdsm process seems to be growing faster (RSS grew 952K in a 5 minute
> > period just now; VSZ didn't change).
> 
> For those following this I've added a comment on the bz [1], although in
> my case the memory leak is, like Chris Adams, a lot more than the 300KiB/h
> in the original bug report by Daniel Helgenberger .
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158108

That's interesting (and worrying).
Could you check your suggestion by editing sampling.py so that
_get_interfaces_and_samples() returns the empty dict immediately?
Would this make the leak disappear?

Dan.