I've also observed this and have been unable to find a solution. In my case at least there was no obvious correlation with the number of metrics or weather the gmond was an aggregating or not (so several orders of magnitude in the number of metrics did not matter, it might happen on 2 out of 80 nodes). gmond would take up memory > physical RAM, swap, and general sadness.
I'm unfortunately not able to provide further information since we went to nightly gmond restarts as a work around. On 02/22/2012 05:10 PM, Aidan Wong 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
