Re: Huge memory leak in virtio, see kvm-Bugs-2989366

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<4BCE9654.2030604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from Michael Tokarev on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:08:20 +0400
> 
> There are only a few guests which are affected.  So far it is not
> really clear what differs them from others: a reinstall of a new
> guest with the same components and doing same functions will not
> necessary show the leak.

I checked further and I can reproduce it on every guest with a simple:

while true ; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=10M count=200 ; cat file > /dev/null ; done

It will leak slowly.

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