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Re: [Xen-devel] possible memory leak involved with hvm domU's

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] possible memory leak involved with hvm domU's
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Date:	Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:32:40 +0100
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:17:11AM -0400, Andrew D. Ball wrote:

> On changeset 
> 10480:f91cc71173c55f18280b12e6732d9e7509d208be
> and other, earlier changesets, I've been seeing some behavior that looks
> like a memory leak.
> 
> I've been working on xend and restarting it frequently.  I've been using
> a debian sarge domU from freeoszoo.
> 
> The dom0 free memory appears to go from about 150M to around 4M or less
> after keeping up the modify xend, restart it, start and stop the domU
> various times routine.

Is it not just that dom0 is being ballooned down?

If not, can you account for the missing memory -- is it in Xend itself or is
it just that there are HVM helper processes lying around?

Ewan.

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