[lvs-users] memory usage of ldirectord

[Steve Wray]

Hi there,
I'm a little concerned about the amount of memory being used by the 
ldirectord process.

I initally figured that 256M of RAM should be plenty for even a 
moderately busy site; the director is handling a single IP address 
passing web traffic to either of two webservers. Its doing failover and 
load-balancing.

I'm currently seeing the ldirectord process using 171M of RAM (as 
displayed by top).

What I am wondering is; is that a lot of RAM for ldirector to be 
absorbing and have I configured something wrong? Or can ldirector be 
expected to consume relatively large amounts of RAM and I need to 
allocate it more memory?

Also, if ldirectord is caching info on connections, can this cache be 
periodically cleared?

Thanks!