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From: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu core file size
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 20:18:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANRm+Cw=F244w=6YMutjcvWin9_xiRt0Z1MvT=oi+7CXjU+DXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb7c5778-238d-ac99-26d6-8a6d9c80a0f4@redhat.com>

2017-11-06 20:02 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>:
> On 06/11/2017 12:59, Fam Zheng wrote:
>>>> Could you point out the patchset for the fix?
>>> Between 447b0d0b9ee8a0ac216c3186e0f3c427a1001f0c and
>>> 092aa2fc65b7a35121616aad8f39d47b8f921618.
>> Not sure how these relate to the core size, but I've tested upstream
>> (ec7a8bf0b8f7dc7288fe8745464ee8217528cc6c) and with dump-guest-core=off the core
>> file is 363M, still significantly larger than rss (~73M).
>>
>> What is bloating the core file?
>
> My guess would have been fragmented heap.  The core file, unlike the
> RSS, includes all the mmaped memory (e.g. from shared libraries) that
> has never been used.
>
> For example, all the Ceph/Gluster/PulseAudio/SPICE/whatever libraries
> are included in the core file but likely are not in the RSS.

Do you mean not use Memory API will avoid the fragmented heap?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-06 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-06  9:11 [Qemu-devel] qemu core file size Wanpeng Li
2017-11-06  9:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-06 10:01   ` Wanpeng Li
2017-11-06 10:26     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-06 11:59       ` Fam Zheng
2017-11-06 12:02         ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-06 12:18           ` Wanpeng Li [this message]
2017-11-06 14:08             ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-07  1:22               ` Wanpeng Li
2017-11-07  5:46               ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2017-11-07  6:02                 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-11-07  6:12                   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2017-11-07  6:16                     ` Wanpeng Li
2017-11-07  7:00                       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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