Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:53:09PM +1300, Steve Wray wrote: >> Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: >>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Steve Wray wrote: >>> >>>> I'm currently seeing the ldirectord process using 171M of RAM (as >>>> displayed by top). >>> I don;t know if this is your problem but... >>> >>> I believe there was a memory leak for which Ratz provided a >>> patch in about Apr this year. AFAIK, this patch is in some >>> branch of ldirectord (I don't know whether it's been >>> released, you could look at the release notes for the >>> version you have). >> Might this be related: >> >> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.highavailability.ultramonkey/2006-04/msg00011.html >> >> Debian appears to use something other than IO::Socket::INET > > Hi All, > > 171M does sound rather ecessive to me. And its probably a memory leak > somewhere. The trick is that it probably lies in an underlying library > and only manifest with certain combinations of perl libraries installed > and perhaps with only specific configurations. > > Ok, that was just waffly not very useful information. > If the problem is readily reproducable it would be tremendously > useful if you could try and narrow down the cause of the problem. > The SSL code has exhibited memory leaks in the past, so that > might be a good place to start.
The server in question has been up for nearly a month when this memory usage was noted. That director node has been shut down thereby invoking a failover to the previously passive director and the director with the memory issue rebooted. I'll keep a close eye on memory usage. > As for changes to ldirectord. It is currently living in the linux-ha > mecurial tree. All changes should be in the dev tree, which you > can see here: > > http://hg.linux-ha.org/dev/log/b263292dc60f/ldirectord/ldirectord.in > > Up until last year that tree was in CVS, the historical changes > can be viewed at: > > http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/ldirectord/ldirectord.in?rev=1.42&view=log > > And before that > > http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/ldirectord/Attic/ldirectord?rev=1.144&view=log > > There is/are other branches of the linux-ha tree, such as the old 1.2 > stable branch, and various staging trees. And ldirectord exists in all > of these trees. However, as I mentioned above most/all changes go > through the main tree. > > > Lastly, if you want to file a Debian bug for this problem thats fine. > It might get some more eyes on the problem. I deal with both upstream > and Debian maintenance of ldirectord, so I do check the Debian bug > tracker and close bugs if/when they get solved. > _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
