On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:32:13AM +0800, Royce Lv wrote:
> Guys,
> Noticed 100+ vdsm processes resides in my system,and all of them in
> sleep status. I guess they're created by the process pool.Little confused
> why we should keep so many vdsm processes alive in the system? Are there
> any user scenario or considerations?
Yes, it is confusing, and yes, it should go with Saggi's
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/4318/
Too bad that that patch is still waiting for some love, verification,
and most probably a rebase. Maybe you can help.
The motivation for this horde of processes is to allow accessing nfs
mounts with no fear of an nfs D state catching the GIL with it. We had
to fork the processes on startup, when the parent is small, or else a
huge memory load is incurred.
Regards,
Dan.
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