Hi Allen, There were some fixes to the memory backend in 1.4.9: https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/1.4/RELEASE-NOTES.md
Could you please provide your app.config file? I'd like to check it and test out your scenario locally. -- Luke Bakken CSE lbak...@basho.com On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Allen Landsidel <landsidel.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Test cluster with 2 machines running 1.4.8 with the memory backend. > app_config has ring_creation_size 64, max_memory 4. If I understand the > documentation correctly this should result in a maximum memory footprint > (minus overhead) of 256M. Each node has 2G RAM, 2G of swap. After running > for a while constantly adding data, without ever explicitly removing any, > the memory footprint outstrips physical ram and will eventually consume all > available swap space and be killed. > > Is this a known issue in 1.4.8 that's fixed in 1.4.9, or is there other > configuration settings that need adjusted to reduce the footprint? > > Initially I had set it up to top out at 1GB but when it started exhausting > swap, I progressively reduced max_memory until I arrived where I am now, > with no difference at all. > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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