Ceph: release RAM used by TCMalloc

Quick tip to release the memory that tcmalloc has allocated but which is not being used by the Ceph daemon itself.

$ ceph tell osd.* heap release
osd.0: osd.0 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.1: osd.1 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.2: osd.2 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.3: osd.3 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.4: osd.4 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.5: osd.5 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.6: osd.6 releasing free RAM back to system.
osd.7: osd.7 releasing free RAM back to system.


Et voilà !

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