[sheepdog-users] RAM usage

[Liu Yuan]

On 06/18/2013 05:41 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> 2013/6/18 Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>:
>> Well, on my test environment, sheep just take around 50M memory(RES). In
>> our production, long running sheep takes 400M~600M memory,
> 
> I can confirm exactly your data
> 
> 06/17/13 22:17:01 535802 55660
> 06/17/13 22:18:01 535802 55660
> 06/17/13 22:19:01 863966 273996
> 06/17/13 22:20:01 538294 64600
> 06/17/13 22:21:01 538294 68556
> ...
> 06/17/13 22:55:01 538754 68652
> 06/17/13 22:56:01 538754 68652
> 06/17/13 22:57:01 538754 68652
> 06/17/13 22:58:01 878762 338364
> 06/17/13 22:59:01 829586 339064
> 06/17/13 23:00:01 804998 339132
> ...
> 06/18/13 04:34:01 809098 343380
> 06/18/13 04:35:01 809098 343384
> 06/18/13 04:36:01 882830 417184
> 06/18/13 04:37:01 874634 408732
> 06/18/13 04:38:01 874634 408744
> 
> Note:
> At '06/17/13 22:19:01' a node got disconnect and Inserted back a few
> minutes later, ram went to 273996, not for long.
> At '06/17/13 22:58:01' two guests have been started (during recovery) -> 338364
> 

Seeing the fact that memory never goes down after running (Valerio,
could you help verify this? Thanks), I suspect glibc doesn't return
freed memory via free(2) to OS. I'll see to this problem when I have
time in hands.

Thanks,
Yuan