On Thu May 19, 2011 at 09:40:41 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > You are exercising both networking and storage. Have you cut the test > down to just wget vs cp/rm? Also why the sleep 10? I'm 99% certain the leak is coming from the virtio block device now. A simple test is: wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/misc/test-files/500M while true; do cp 500M foo.img; rm foo.img; sleep 2; done "top" shows the virt memory growing to >1gb in under two minutes. Steve Kemp -- Bytemark Hosting http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ phone UK: 0845 004 3 004 Dedicated Linux hosts from 15ukp ($30) per month -- 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