On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:33:42 -0700 Gregory Farnum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Christian Balzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Questions remaining: > > > > a) Is that non-deterministic "ceph heap" behavior expected and if yes > > can it be fixed? > > You can specify the monitor you want to connect to (by IP) with the "-m" > option. > Argh! Well, I only feel half as stupid as I maybe should, since I only looked at the ceph man page once or twice early one and after seeing that it was tiny and had no actual information about the commands inside ceph I used "ceph --help" and/or the homepage since then. ^o^ > > b) Any idea what might have caused the heap to grow to that size? > > c) Shouldn't it have released that memory by itself at some point in > > time? > > This is some issue between tcmalloc (the memory allocator we use) and > the OS that pops up rarely and hasn't been nailed down. Given that, > we're not really sure what the issue is. > Fair enough, as long as it is known issue and hopefully won't go into death spiral invoking the OOM. Thanks, Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer [email protected] Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications http://www.gol.com/ _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
