[Kea-users] High memory utilization for Kea server / Stork agent

Peter Davies peterd at isc.org
Tue May 14 08:20:33 UTC 2024


Hi Marek,

    It would be better if you sent this to the Stork Users mailing list 
- stork-users at lists.isc.org

/Peter

On 13/05/2024 20.11, Marek Hajduczenia wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been observing very high memory utilization for Kea VMs. In ~4 
> days, the memory utilization has grown from ~2 GB to close to 8GB for 
> no good reason.
>
> I seem to be running multiple copies of processes for some reason, 
> with stork-agent likely being the primary culprit, and Kea DHCP 
> servers being likely the second culprit. I have the very same 
> situation on both lab nodes. I have to restart the server / stork 
> agent periodically to eliminate the memory bloat.
>
> 634 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  7:35.77 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 709 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  0:18.34 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 710 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  0:34.27 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 711 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 713 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.01 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 727 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 740 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  1:29.63 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 894 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3  1:24.96 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 1921 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3 1:29.49 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
> 15986 stork-age  20   0 1866M 26240 15824 S  0.0  0.3 0:53.26 
> /usr/bin/stork-agent
>
>    1340 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  4:54.19 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1341 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1342 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1343 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1344 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1352 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:05.43 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1353 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:05.49 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1354 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:08.22 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>    1355 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:08.25 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>   20544 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>   20545 _kea       20   0  507M 23864 16784 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp6 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
>     679 root       20   0  107M 20736 12596 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.04 
> /usr/bin/python3 
> /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown 
> --wait-for-signal
>
>     732 root       20   0  107M 20736 12596 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 
> /usr/bin/python3 
> /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown 
> --wait-for-signal
>
>    1889 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  3:05.41 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1890 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1891 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1892 _kea   20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1893 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.00 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1897 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:05.47 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1898 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:05.15 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1899 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:10.02 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>    1900 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:09.95 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>   20586 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.09 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>  20587 _kea       20   0  507M 19292 14552 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.08 
> /usr/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
> Regards
>
> Marek
>
>
-- 
Peter Davies
Support Engineer
Internet Systems Corporation
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