On 09/18/2014 09:31 PM, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
As a wishlist item, I think it'd be nice if debug builds (or some
other build-time option) would disable the pools. Then valgrind might
be more useful for finding leaks.
Maybe for GlusterFS-4.0?
This is already available http://review.gluster.org/7835
Pranith
On 09/18/2014 11:40 AM, Dan Lambright wrote:
If we could disable/enable ref tracking dynamically, it may only be
"heavy weight" tempoarily while the customer is being observed.
You could get a state dump , or another idea is to take a core of the
live process. gcore $(pidof processname)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkara...@redhat.com>
To: "Shyam" <srang...@redhat.com>, gluster-devel@gluster.org
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:34:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] how do you debug ref leaks?
On 09/18/2014 07:48 PM, Shyam wrote:
On 09/17/2014 10:13 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
hi,
Till now the only method I used to find ref leaks
effectively is to
find what operation is causing ref leaks and read the code to find if
there is a ref-leak somewhere. Valgrind doesn't solve this problem
because it is reachable memory from inode-table etc. I am just
wondering
if there is an effective way anyone else knows of. Do you guys
think we
need a better mechanism of finding refleaks? At least which decreases
the search space significantly i.e. xlator y, fop f etc? It would be
better if we can come up with ways to integrate statedump and this
infra
just like we did for mem-accounting.
One way I thought was to introduce new apis called
xl_fop_dict/inode/fd_ref/unref (). Each xl keeps an array of num_fops
per inode/dict/fd and increments/decrements accordingly. Dump this
info
on statedump.
I myself am not completely sure about this idea. It requires all
xlators
to change.
Any ideas?
On a debug build we can use backtrace information stashed per ref and
unref, this will give us history of refs taken and released. Which
will also give the code path where ref was taken and released.
It is heavy weight, so not for non-debug setups, but if a problem is
reproducible this could be a quick way to check who is not releasing
the ref's or have a history of the refs and unrefs to dig better into
code.
Do you have any ideas for final builds also? Basically when users
report
leaks it should not take us too long to figure out the problem area. We
should just ask them for statedump and should be able to figure out the
problem.
Pranith
Shyam
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