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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [xen-discuss] possible memory-leak in qemu-dm

To: Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [xen-discuss] possible memory-leak in qemu-dm
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:26:01 +0300
Cc: Mark Johnson <Mark.Johnson@xxxxxxx>, Xen discuss <xen-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:58:14PM +0200, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Am 14.10.2009 21:46, schrieb Mark Johnson:
> > 
> > Hi Florian,
> > 
> > Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> >> Mark,
> >> could you also make a short info howto update, a system I build just
> >> yesterday, when the patch is inplace. The older Machine I would have to
> >> re-bfu due to changed userspace, but the machine installed yesterday
> >> should be fixed with rebuilding and reinstalling xvm packages?
> >>
> >> Btw, could you sync-up the onnv-3.4 with b124? It is difficult to build
> >> b123 with b124, due to missing, with b124 obsolete, headerfiles.
> > 
> > I've sync'd up with the changes in qemu-unstable, and qemu-dm is
> > still leaking a ton of memory for HVM guests which don't have PV
> > drivers.  So it looks like they don't have a correct fix upstream
> > for this.
> Uh, if this could be confirmed it is really a huge and ultimately ugly
> problem. If I could do anything to help you to fix it, give me some detail.
> 

Yeah.. what kind of HVM guest is triggering this bug? 
How fast it is leaking mem? 

-- Pasi


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