Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in xend

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Zhigang Wang wrote:

> I also encountered this many times. I come up with a patch.
>
> Jim, please review.
>
> thanks,
>
> zhigang
>
> Stefan de Konink wrote:
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> >> We observed OOM kills of xend after ~20 days in openSUSE build service
> >> workers.  xend reached around 2.5 G virt, 1.5G res, and 1.8G shared
> >> memory usage. Attached patch provides a plug.
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> > Did you see problems after this patch? I have applied it on 3.2.1 which
> > borks about missing vm_metrics.
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The patch you provide seems to be for the 3.3 version right? The
is_managed attribute/function, is it available for 3.2? Can anyone
backport this?

(I think giving me a reference to a kernel that is older than 2.6.18 and
supports x86_64 + Xen 3.3 is more work ;)


Stefan


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