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Josh Elser edited comment on ACCUMULO-847 at 11/16/12 2:20 AM: --------------------------------------------------------------- I reran Eric's test on my box at home (8core, 16G of ram, 3 spinning disks for data dirs) using the same Accumulo heap and native map sizes. Relevant software versions: * Sun JDK 1.6.0_37 * glibc-2.15-r3 (if it's important, I can resolve what Gentoo patched in the r3 version above 2.15 that the community tagged) * Kernel 3.6.6 ||Arenas||Thresh||Res Mem (GB)|| |0|0|2| |0|1|1.9| |1|0|1.3| |1|1|1.3| |4|0|1.6| The big take-away I see from this is: # Altering the number of arenas has the expected effect on resident memory # On my system, I did *not* see resident memory rise out of reasonable bounds. was (Author: elserj): I reran Eric's test on my box at home (8core, 16G of ram, 3 spinning disks for data dirs) using the same Accumulo heap and native map sizes. Relevant software versions: * Sun JDK 1.6.0_37 * glibc-2.15-r3 (if it's important, I can resolve what Gentoo patched in the r3 version above 2.15 that the community tagged) * Kernel 3.6.6 ||Arenas||Thresh=0||Res Mem (GB)|| |0|0|2| |0|1|1.9| |1|0|1.3| |1|1|1.3| |4|0|1.6| The big take-away I see from this is: # Altering the number of arenas has the expected effect on resident memory # On my system, I did *not* see resident memory rise out of reasonable bounds. > out of memory error creating native thread > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: ACCUMULO-847 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-847 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tserver > Environment: RHEL6 > Reporter: Eric Newton > Assignee: Keith Turner > Fix For: 1.5.0 > > > Long running tablet servers had many gigabytes of memory allocated above what > was expected (native + jvm). Inspection of the heap did not show an unusual > number of native objects allocated. Servers would eventually fail to create > new threads. > See HADOOP-7154 for the details. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira