Hi Benjamin,

Without running valgrind against the code I'm going to guess. If none of
these resolve the issue, let me know. There are a couple memory related
fixes that may affect server side memory use that have been put in OrangeFS,
I don't know if they made it to 2.8.2 or the code base you're working from.

Leaks at server state machine completion
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:bligon:20100906203050
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:bligon:20100902155433

PJMP related fixes associated with leaks
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:bligon:20100831190748
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:bligon:20100831190531

Leak in seteattr/geteattr calls
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:bligon:20090707165459

Hopefully it's one of these items, if not, let me know and we can look at
the Valgrind output.

Michael


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin Severs
<[email protected]>wrote:

> When using the pvfs2-ls utility, the server apparently allocates memory for
> the request and fails to clean it up after the request.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> * Create a 2.8.2 file system
> * Add some files to a directory on the file system (I was testing with 1000
> files)
> * Run pvfs2-ls to list the files
>
> The memory usage is quite apparent in a "top" listing.  By putting the
> command
> in a loop, you can see the memory usuage climb unbounded, very quickly.
>
> This doesn't appear to be an issue when using normal "ls" command line
> utility.
>
> Also, this issue does not appear to exist in the orangefs/2.8.3 version,
> but
> we are not able to upgrade at this time.
>
> Is this a known issue with a possible patch available?
>
> - Benjamin Severs
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