Hi Brad: On 2/14/08, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Basically it is just the standard configuration with gmond reporting > bytes_in, bytes_out, pkts_in, pkts_out metrics. As part of these metric > gathering functions, interface names needed to be added to a hash table. > Each time the metric function was called and the /proc/net/dev file was > parsed, the interface names that were found in the file were strdup'ed() and > attempted to be added to the hash table. The problem is that the strdup'ed > string only needed to be added once, however the name was being strdup'ed > every time whether it was actually added to the hash table or not. On the > attempts when the name already existed, the strdup'ed memory was never freed. > > Basically, you just have to watch the memory footprint for gmond grow over > time. It doesn't happen very fast. Right -- so this doesn't appear to have anything to do with gmond's configuration (mute/deaf), it just grows over time. I just checked a gmond that has been running for 190 days, and RSS is 150MB -- not good... Glad that we tracked this issue down. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
