Bugs item #2989366, was opened at 2010-04-19 13:47 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by trevoro You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2989366&group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: tgr (tgr1) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: huge memory leak (qemu-kvm 0.12.3) Initial Comment: CPU: Xeon E5450 KVM: qemu-kvm 0.12.3 Host: Debian Squeeze amd64, kernel 2.6.32 Guest: Debian Lenny amd64, kernel 2.6.26 qemu command line below (no helpers like libvirt used) whether the problem goes away if using the -no-kvm-irqchip or -no-kvm-pit switch: seems unrelated whether the problem also appears with the -no-kvm switch: load profile of the guest makes running without KVM infeasible The problem: after 4 days, the kvm process of a guest run with -mem 3072 takes 12 GB VSZ / 9 GB RSS - grows until OOM ("kvm invoked oom-killer" in dmesg). At that point the guest shows more than 2 GB of free memory. qemu command line: kvm -smp 4 -m 3072 -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,name=eth0,macaddr=x:x:x:x:x:x -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap6 -net nic,vlan=1,model=virtio,name=eth1,macaddr=x:x:x:x:x:x -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap7 -drive if=virtio,file=/dev/x/x-rootfs,index=0 -drive if=virtio,file=/dev/x/x-swap,index=1 -name x -nographic -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 -initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 -append root=/dev/vda console=ttyS0 -echr 2 -serial mon:telnet:localhost:12344,server,nowait -monitor unix:/var/run/kvm-x,server,nowait -daemonize -watchdog i6300esb -watchdog-action reset (the monitor on both telnet and unix socket is intentional, the one on the socket is only used for sending system_reset and system_powerdown qemu commands). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: trevoro (trevoro) Date: 2010-05-18 17:25 Message: I am experiencing an identical issue on an AMD Sempron with qemu-kvm 0.12.3. We have a few virtual machines running on this host. After a few days this is what the memory utilization looks like for the KVM processes. be95ae3e-5f79-11df-b0c0-540001bf0689 1024M: vsz=1241M rss=706M 3bd6f690-5c65-11df-9fb1-5400013f4a54 512M: vsz=675M rss=466M c103e4e4-5e00-11df-94fe-540001fccc62 256M: vsz=1470M rss=301M 0c068dba-5df8-11df-938c-5400015669e3 256M: vsz=7646M rss=2560M ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=2989366&group_id=180599 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
