Ceph - Why OSD daemons memory consumption keeps on growing in Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.x?
Issue
- Why memory consumption of OSD daemons keeps on growing and in the end new process could not be created due to no memory to allocate ?
- Heap size for most of the OSD daemon is quite high.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.x
- Specific Red Hat Ceph Storage versions starting from -
10.2.7-32.el7cp
till10.2.10-43.el7cp
. - For all Red Hat Ceph Storage versions please check the article - What are the Red Hat Ceph Storage releases and corresponding Ceph package versions?.
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