[389-users] 389 DS 1.2.5 on RHEL VM

[Rich Megginson]

Barry Sitompul wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> Thanks for the replies!
>
> I am running the DS on a RHEL 5.5 x86_64 VM.
>
> It's got 8GB of RAM and out of that I allocated 600MB for the LDBM  
> plugin cache. I have four backend databases so does it mean 600 x 4  =  
> 2.4GB in total? Plus 3.8GB in total for the database entry caches.
>
> after a closer look, the virtual memory usage spikes everytime an  
> unindexed search is performed. Now I've got one sitting at 10G virtual  
> memory usage. I would think that the usage should be limited to the  
> maximum cache size above.
>   
Not necessarily, if it is memory that is not used by either the entry 
cache or the db caches.

Can you reproduce this behavior on bare metal (i.e. not a vm)?
> I started with the clean install of the VM and the 389-DS 1.2.5 so I  
> don't think there is a problem with the OS, but thanks for the offer  
> Gerrard.
>
> What can cause the memory usage to always go up and not limited to the  
> max cache size?
>
>
> Cheers!
> Bazza
> On 13/07/2010, at 7:06 PM, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Barry,
>> I am running the DS on VirtualBox with only 512Mb ram and 2500  
>> users. I am using vanilla install from EPEL and Centos 5.5 fully  
>> updated. Unless you have memory problems I can't see why the same  
>> would not work for you. Granted I use a very clean install. I can  
>> send you the package removal listings in the kickstart if you are  
>> interested. Other than that, providing more information about your  
>> versions as stated in another reply will be the best course of action.
>>
>> Regards
>> ________________________________________
>> From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org 
>> ] on behalf of Barry Sitompul [b.sitompul at uq.edu.au]
>> Sent: 13 July 2010 00:26
>> To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
>> Subject: [389-users] 389 DS 1.2.5 on RHEL VM
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone had the experience of running the DS on a VM?
>>
>> I've got one set up running on a RHEL VM and it looks like the virtual
>> memory usage keeps going up and stays up with every LDAP query (I just
>> use top).
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is caused by the application problem or this is
>> expected RHEL behaviour?
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bazza
>>
>>
>>
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