Take a look at this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1670
When no xmx was set we noticed that zookeeper could take upto 1/4 of the memory available on the system with jdk 1.6 -- Arpit Gupta Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/ On Apr 19, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Rohit Kelkar <rohitkel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, any inputs on this issue? Is there some periodic cleanup that we need > to do? > > - Rohit Kelkar > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Rohit Kelkar <rohitkel...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> No. Just using the "bin/zkServer.sh start" command. Also each node has 48 >> GB RAM >> >> - Rohit Kelkar >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < >> jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Rohit, >>> >>> How are you starting your ZK servers? Are you passing any Xm* parameters? >>> >>> JM >>> >>> 2013/4/18 Rohit Kelkar <rohitkel...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> We have a 3 node cluster in production with the zookeeper instances >>> running >>>> on each node. I checked the memory usage for QuorumPeerMain using 'cat >>>> /proc/<processid>/status' and it shows that the VMData is ~16GB. >>>> The zookeeper is being used only by hbase. Is this usual for hbase to >>> load >>>> up the zookeeper memory so much or is it that we have missed out some >>>> important maintenance activity on zookeeper? >>>> >>>> - Rohit Kelkar >>>> >>> >> >>
