Re: [Xen-devel] qemu-system-i386: memory leak?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:06 +0000, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> On 26/12/12 11:46, Maik Wessler wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using xen-4.2-testing.hg on debian 6.0.6 (x86_64) with Kernel
> > 3.4.15 (tmem enabled).

Why 3.4.15? Would be good to either use the distro kernel or keep up
with the upstream stable branch.

>  Problem is that the /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386
> > use more and more memory. After one week uptime (depends on memory) the
> > machine starts to swap...
[...]
> >  total           424016K
> >
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> I've just posted a bug fix for a memory leak in Qemu Xen PV disk
> backend, you can take a look at the patch at:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-12/msg03677.html.

The pmap doesn't appear to show any open backing devices for a disk so
I'm guessing this isn't in use?

Given that this is a PV guest and I can see -nographic on the qemu
command line I'm not what qemu is doing -- can we see the guest
configuration please? "xl -vvv create" logs would be useful too.

> There's also a memory leak in the linux gntdev device which is used by
> Qemu, you should also take a look at the following linux kernel patch
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git;a=commit;h=a67baeb77375199bbd842fa308cb565164dd1f19.
> 

This is possible.

If it doesn't turn out to be this then one approach might be to arrange
to run qemu under valgrind for a little bit and see if anything springs
out.

You'd probably need at least r13081 of Valgrind's SVN trunk to remove
all the noise due to hypercalls.

Ian.


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