Increases the use of the system RAM until it reaches RAM saturation

[samuel.debionne]

I see that you mention H5garbage_collect. I have had similar symptoms than the OP and reported in

Garbage collector never release memory leading to OOM

Hi all, We have a continuously running process saving files to HDF5 and, in some circumstances, it happens that the HDF5 garbage collector grows indefinitely, aka never collecting, and that leads to OOM. We have fixed the situation by calling H5garbage_collect on a regular basis, but any additional informations on how the garbage collection works and what is collected would be appreciated. Moreover, this a new problem to us, is there any recent change that could have affected the way the garba…

but I never got an answer about how the garbage collection works. Could elaborate on that please? e.g. When do we have to call it? What is collected?

In the meantime, I’ll try to monitor the free list sizes with H5get_free_list_sizes().

Thanks,
Samuel