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

To: Mark Johnson <johnson.nh@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [xen-discuss] possible memory-leak in qemu-dm
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:50 +0100
Cc: "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>, Xen discuss <xen-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Johnson <Mark.Johnson@xxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Mark Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:24:29PM +0200, Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Was this happening before you applied my patches, but after "fix qemu
> >> > memory leak in block interface"?
> >> > I am trying to understand if this is a recent regression.
> >> It is an older build of xvm-3.4 gate
> >> I have to review current patch state and will update accordingly if
> >> possible.
> >>
> >> It was Mark, who told that the problem isn't fixed by the Patch. So I
> >> not rushed to update.
> >>
> >
> > Hmm.. wondering if this is opensolaris specific,
> 
> It's possible... I looked through our qemu patches and we don't have
> any changes in that code path..  So I would be surprised..
> 
> 
> > or if it happens also with Linux dom0s.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this on 3.4 or unstable?  e.g. boot a rhel3 guest and 
> watch
> the memory usage of qemu-dm... You can't miss it if its leaking...
> 

What kind of operations are you doing in the guest?
Is there a simple benchmark that triggers this behaviour (for example a
disk or network benchmark)?
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