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[Abhishek <abhishek.mehrotra@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

memory leak in glance api when a big image ~300GB is downloaded via
glanceclient in kilo.

the backend store is S3. when the glanceclient starts downloading the
image, the glanceclient is stopped.

After stopping the glanceclient process the memory consumed by
associated glance-api starts increasing every second till it consumes
70-80% memory  (seen via top) and finally becoming unresponsive.

Upon restarting the glance-api service the memory consumed is released.

** Affects: glance
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  memory leak in glance api when a big image ~300GB is downloaded via
  glanceclient in kilo

Status in Glance:
  New

Bug description:
  memory leak in glance api when a big image ~300GB is downloaded via
  glanceclient in kilo.

  the backend store is S3. when the glanceclient starts downloading the
  image, the glanceclient is stopped.

  After stopping the glanceclient process the memory consumed by
  associated glance-api starts increasing every second till it consumes
  70-80% memory  (seen via top) and finally becoming unresponsive.

  Upon restarting the glance-api service the memory consumed is
  released.

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