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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to diagnose memory leak in kvm-qemu-0.14.0?
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:01:58 +0100
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Steve Kemp <steve@bytemark.co.uk> wro=
te:
> On Thu May 19, 2011 at 09:40:41 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
>> You are exercising both networking and storage. =A0Have you cut the =
test
>> down to just wget vs cp/rm? =A0Also why the sleep 10?
>
> =A0I'm 99% certain the leak is coming from the virtio block device
> =A0now. =A0A simple test is:
>
> =A0wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/misc/test-files/500M
> =A0while true; do cp 500M foo.img; rm foo.img; sleep 2; done
>
> =A0"top" shows the virt memory growing to >1gb in under two minutes.

Were you able to track down the culprit?

Stefan