How many metrics are you monitoring? gmond must allocated memory for each metric, from each host. If you are using multicast, each gmond instance will get metrics from all other instances.
If you run gmond in isolation--no traffic to/from other gmond instances--does memory usage still go up? On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 17:10, Aidan Wong <aidanw...@attinteractive.com> wrote: > Hi it looks like my install of gmond version 3.2.0 is leaking memory. The > amount of resident used memory that the process uses, gets up pretty high > and keeps increasing. > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 18647 0.0 9.9 2965464 1836268 ? Ss Jan14 11:24 > /home/t/hadoop-ganglia-client/sbin/gmond -c > /home/t/hadoop-ganglia-client/gmond.conf -p > /home/t/hadoop-ganglia-client/logs/gmond.pid > > Is this a bug? Can anyone suggest a solution? > > Thank you > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-general mailing list > Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > -- Jesse Becker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
