From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 12:08:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37E11065677; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCF88FC15; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:08:46 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap8EAPeLmk+DaFvO/2dsb2JhbAA8CA4IhVKtCYIJAQEEASNWBQcPDgcDAgINGQJZBgoJiAgFC6oDkx6BL4lVhSeBGASVfYERjy+CL1U X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,491,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="169771605" Received: from erie.cs.uoguelph.ca (HELO zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca) ([131.104.91.206]) by esa-jnhn-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 27 Apr 2012 08:08:40 -0400 Received: from zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EB6B4014; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:08:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:08:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem To: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: <1693565170.26796.1335528520197.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [172.17.91.202] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.10_GA_2692 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Win)/6.0.10_GA_2692) Cc: killing@multiplay.co.uk, Hiroki Sato , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, ob@e-Gitt.NET Subject: Re: 9-STABLE, ZFS, NFS, ggatec - suspected memory leak X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:08:47 -0000 Daniel Braniss wrote: > > ----Security_Multipart(Fri_Apr_27_13_35_56_2012_748)-- > > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Rick Macklem wrote > > in > > <1527622626.3418715.1335445225510.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>: > > > > rm> Steven Hartland wrote: > > rm> > ---- Original Message ----- > > rm> > From: "Rick Macklem" > > rm> > > At a glance, it looks to me like 8.x is affected. Note that > > the > > rm> > > bug only affects the new NFS server (the experimental one > > for 8.x) > > rm> > > when exporting ZFS volumes. (UFS exported volumes don't > > leak) > > rm> > > > > rm> > > If you are running a server that might be affected, just: > > rm> > > # vmstat -z | fgrep -i namei > > rm> > > on the server and see if the 3rd number shown is increasing. > > rm> > > > rm> > Many thanks Rick wasnt aware we had anything experimental > > enabled > > rm> > but I think that would be a yes looking at these number:- > > rm> > > > rm> > vmstat -z | fgrep -i namei > > rm> > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 1, 1483, 25285086096, 0 > > rm> > vmstat -z | fgrep -i namei > > rm> > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 0, 1484, 25285945725, 0 > > rm> > > > rm> ^ > > rm> I don't think so, since the 3rd number (USED) is 0 here. > > rm> If that # is increasing over time, you have the leak. You are > > rm> probably running the old (default in 8.x) NFS server. > > > > Just a report, I confirmed it affected 8.x servers running newnfs. > > > > Actually I have been suffered from memory starvation symptom on > > that > > server (24GB RAM) for a long time and watching vmstat -z > > periodically. It stopped working once a week. I investigated the > > vmstat log again and found the amount of NAMEI leak was 11,543,956 > > (about 11GB!) just before the locked-up. After applying the patch, > > the leak disappeared. Thank you for fixing it! > > > > -- Hiroki And thanks Hiroki for testing it on 8.x. > this is on 8.2-STABLE/amd64 from around August: > same here, this zfs+newnfs has been hanging every few months, and I > can see > now the leak, it's slowly increasing: > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 122975, 529, 15417248, 0 > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 122984, 520, 15421772, 0 > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 123002, 502, 15424743, 0 > NAMEI: 1024, 0, 123008, 496, 15425464, 0 > > cheers, > danny Maybe you could try the patch, too. It's at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/namei-leak.patch I'll commit it to head soon with a 1 month MFC, so that hopefully Oliver will have a chance to try it on his production server before the MFC. Thanks everyone, for your help with this, rick