From: Steve Kemp <steve@bytemark.co.uk>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to diagnose memory leak in kvm-qemu-0.14.0?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 12:57:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519115734.GB3490@bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimq2S3a=BbDJvxkeET9pK64ybKEiw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu May 19, 2011 at 09:40:41 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> You are exercising both networking and storage. Have you cut the test
> down to just wget vs cp/rm? Also why the sleep 10?
I'm 99% certain the leak is coming from the virtio block device
now. A simple test is:
wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/misc/test-files/500M
while true; do cp 500M foo.img; rm foo.img; sleep 2; done
"top" shows the virt memory growing to >1gb in under two minutes.
Steve Kemp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 16:44 How to diagnose memory leak in kvm-qemu-0.14.0? Steve Kemp
2011-05-19 8:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-19 8:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-19 11:00 ` Steve Kemp
2011-05-19 11:57 ` Steve Kemp [this message]
2011-05-20 11:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-20 11:47 ` Steve Kemp
2011-05-20 13:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-20 13:47 ` Steve Kemp
2011-05-20 14:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-05-20 14:52 ` Steve Kemp
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