Public bug reported: nova-compute memory grows to 3gb in a Scaled environment (5000 vm) where continuous VM operations were executed for 72 hours.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22181 nova 20 0 3325m 3.0g 6588 R 34.2 19.0 3984:23 nova-compute To test the memory leak we created and deleted same number of vms for some iterations. Here is the data . VM Count Memory (KB ) 0 516528 20 518520 40 518520 60 522192 80 524068 100 526904 0 526904 20 526904 40 526904 60 526904 80 526904 100 529372 0 530972 20 530972 40 530972 60 530972 80 530972 100 533484 0 533484 20 533484 40 533484 60 533484 80 533484 100 535112 0 535112 When analysed with objgraph, it showed that suds library objects occupied most of the memory. ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: vmware -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316434 Title: vmware: nova compute memory grows continuously with creation and deletions on VMs Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): New Bug description: nova-compute memory grows to 3gb in a Scaled environment (5000 vm) where continuous VM operations were executed for 72 hours. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22181 nova 20 0 3325m 3.0g 6588 R 34.2 19.0 3984:23 nova-compute To test the memory leak we created and deleted same number of vms for some iterations. Here is the data . VM Count Memory (KB ) 0 516528 20 518520 40 518520 60 522192 80 524068 100 526904 0 526904 20 526904 40 526904 60 526904 80 526904 100 529372 0 530972 20 530972 40 530972 60 530972 80 530972 100 533484 0 533484 20 533484 40 533484 60 533484 80 533484 100 535112 0 535112 When analysed with objgraph, it showed that suds library objects occupied most of the memory. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1316434/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp