Hi list, I am not sure if this is a bug or simply my improper usage of Tahoe, but it seems that after uploading a large file or large number of files, the Tahoe daemon allocates a huge amount of RAM and doesn't unallocate it.
To explain it a little further, I have 1gb of RAM on one of my storage nodes. A fresh restart of the daemon will leave me with 723mb of RAM free. I upload three 60mb files at the same time over FTP (using this node as the gateway), and RAM usage progressively increases until I am left with 407mb RAM free. This number holds steady. A few minutes later, I upload three 170mb files, and the amount of free RAM hovers around 15mb, eventually down to 1 or 2. At this point, the OS begins swapping and performance deteriorates until subsequent uploads completely timeout, and it hangs just trying to create a new directory. I restart the daemon (`tahoe restart .`), and everything is fine again. I'm running CentOS 5.5 using Tahoe 1.8.2. Any ideas? Thank you, Michael _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
