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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Issues migrating to xen 4.1 / qemu-dm me

To: Sylvain CHEVALIER <sylvain.chevalier@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Issues migrating to xen 4.1 / qemu-dm memory leak?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:42:38 +0300
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:54:27AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:41:59AM +0800, Sylvain CHEVALIER wrote:
> > > And did you mean qemu-dm process in dom0 is leaking memory?
> > >
> > 
> > I believe so. After running the whole week-end, with one instance of
> > windows 2008 used as a domain controller, qemu-dm uses 2GB of RAM.
> > Running pmap, I am getting lots of lines like this one:
> > 
> > 00007fcd73f2e000   1024K rw-s-  /proc/xen/privcmd
> > 
> > $ pmap 10423| grep /proc/xen/privcmd | wc -l
> > 1827
> > 
> > Any clue?
> > 
> 
> Ok. So, a summary:
> 
> - VM has 512 MB of memory: qemu-dm leaks memory.
> - VM has 4GB of memory: qemu-dm doesn't leak memory.
> 
> Is that what you meant?
> 
> btw. is that Windows running any PV drivers or pure HVM with emulated devices?
> 

Hello again,

Sylvain: Are you still seeing this qemu-dm memleak problem? Did you resolve it? 

-- Pasi


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