[Linux-cluster] DLM Locks and Memory issue

[Wendy Cheng]

Jon Erickson wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been testing GFS with millions and millions of files and my
> system performance degrades as the number of locks increases.  Along
> with the number of locks being in the millions, all of my system
> memory is used.  After performing a umount and mount of my GFS file
> system the locks go back down to zero and all the memory is reclaimed.
> This of course improves my system performance.  Is there a way to
> release all locks and memory associated without unmounting my file
> system?
>
> Should I try the patch in the bug report?
> Comment #31: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214239
>
Yes, please do.  Check out:

http://people.redhat.com/wcheng/Patches/GFS/R4/readme

-- Wendy