Re: [MooseFS-Users] mfsmaster memory usage

[F. O. O. <oz...@gm...>]

On 10/06/2016 04:12 PM, Wilson, Steven M wrote:
> That's not any worry unless the physical memory is being kept from being
> used for something else that needs it.  If the mfsmaster is repeatedly
> touching memory that it's not really using, thus keeping it from being
> paged out, while another application needs more, that would be silly.
> If it's just leaving it sitting there until it can use it again, there's
> no worry.
>
> So in your situation, the natural thing to do would be to make sure that
> the mfsmaster has enough physical memory to handle the peak need, and
> not make it run any other application that competes with it for the RAM.
>
> -tih

I agree, it will be best to have a dedicated mfsmaster that doesn't do 
much of anything else anyways, so unless there is a real memory leak,
there is no problem here.

-- F. O. Ozbek