On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Steve Kemp <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Were you able to track down the culprit? Stefan -- 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