Bug 1543585 - Client Memory Usage Drastically Increased from 3.12 to 3.13 for Replicate 3 Volumes
Summary: Client Memory Usage Drastically Increased from 3.12 to 3.13 for Replicate 3 V...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: GlusterFS
Classification: Community
Component: fuse
Version: 3.13
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Reported: 2018-02-08 18:46 UTC by Ellie
Modified: 2018-06-20 18:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-06-20 18:25:10 UTC
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Contains statedump files for before and after the test for each version, results of the test for each version, and the test script (8.14 MB, application/zip)
2018-02-08 18:46 UTC, Ellie
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Description Ellie 2018-02-08 18:46:59 UTC
Created attachment 1393376 [details]
Contains statedump files for before and after the test for each version, results of the test for each version, and the test script

Description of problem:
On a replicate 3 volume spread across 3 servers, the client with version 3.13.2 uses significantly more memory than 3.12.5 (which is already over 1G)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.13.2

How reproducible:
We have seen this problem 4/4 test runs

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a volume that is of type replicate 3 across 3 different servers
2. Unzip the attached zip file and extract mem_test.sh onto the on of the servers in the cluster
3. Update the script to replace the variables with your own paths for mount, brick, etc (replace "/path/to..." with your locations)
4. run the script with the following command "./mem-test.sh -r 10 -t 10 -m read -s" This will create create 1 million files with 10 threads writing 100,000 files each and then the script will read each file from the mount.
5. Repeat this on a site with gluster version 3.12 and 3.13

Actual results:
The gluster_processes.csv file shows that the client for 3.13 is using ~5G of memory while in 3.12 it was using ~1G. These values can be seen in the client_mem_res column. NOTE: if the gluster_process.csv values have no unit then they are in KB

Expected results:
The memory usage should not increase that much between versions. If anything it should decrease.

Additional info:
In addition to the script, the zip file also contains
- gluster_processes_<version-number>.csv files show the results of our test runs for each version
- before_test_<version-number>.glusterdump files show the statedump for the glusterfs process BEFORE the tests start for each version
- after_test_<version-number>.glusterdump files show the statedump for the glusterfs process AFTER the tests start for each version

Comment 1 Nithya Balachandran 2018-02-13 07:14:34 UTC
Is this a pure replicate volume? Can you provide the output of gluster volume info?

Comment 2 Ellie 2018-02-13 14:04:51 UTC
(In reply to Nithya Balachandran from comment #1)
> Is this a pure replicate volume? Can you provide the output of gluster
> volume info?

Yes, this is a pure replicate volume. The result of the command is

Volume Name: <volumeName>
Type: Replicate
Volume ID: 6264f4b6-be81-4c3b-8ddd-882ac1325cde
Status: Started
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: <IP Address 1>:</path/to/mount/on/server1>
Brick2: <IP Address 2>:</path/to/mount/on/server2>
Brick3: <IP Address 3>:</path/to/mount/on/server3>
Options Reconfigured:
performance.client-io-threads: off
nfs.disable: true
transport.address-family: inet
performance.io-thread-count: 64
auth.allow: <IP Address 1>,<IP Address 2>,<IP Address 3>

Comment 3 Nithya Balachandran 2018-02-14 13:39:43 UTC
Thank you. I will try to take a look at this next week.

Comment 4 Danny Lee 2018-02-22 16:02:30 UTC
Definitely take a look at the "iobuf" value under "xlator.mount.fuse.priv".  It seems quite high.  This ticket might be related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501146

Comment 5 Shyamsundar 2018-06-20 18:25:10 UTC
This bug reported is against a version of Gluster that is no longer maintained (or has been EOL'd). See https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/ for the versions currently maintained.

As a result this bug is being closed.

If the bug persists on a maintained version of gluster or against the mainline gluster repository, request that it be reopened and the Version field be marked appropriately.


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