RE: [Xen-devel] [BUG] memory leak in xend

To:	"Christopher S. Aker" <caker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] [BUG] memory leak in xend
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:49:24 +0100
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 > > My xend process is currently at 462M.  To reproduce: start 
> a domain, 
> > telnet/xencons into the console, make some output (find / is a good 
> > way) and watch xend's memory rise.
> 
> Ok, it's not console output.  xend's memory flickers up/down, 
> but ends on the same number.
> 
> I'm trying "watch -n0 xm list" now. So far, it's gone up 700k 
> in the last minute.  It appears as though every run through 
> "xm list" list adds ~2k

Since pyhthon is a garbage collected language, this is not unexpected.
It will reclaim the memory only ehen the GC runs.

You can probably set tuning parameters for python's GC if you want to
reclaim the memory earlier. See python.org.

Ian

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