From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnJxc-000084-Ac for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnJxb-00007M-Ic for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54376 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnJxb-00007B-CH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:47 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:41475) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnJxa-0005md-UJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:23:45 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu --curses uses large amount of memory Message-ID: <20090914222345.GL20112@hall.aurel32.net> References: <20090911151933.GA16715@linux1.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090911151933.GA16715@linux1.lan> Sender: Aurelien Jarno List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Tyler Spivey Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:19:33AM -0700, Tyler Spivey wrote: > I'm using qemu 0.10.6 on linux 2.6.30. When I run: > qemu -fda floppy.img -curses > Qemu has a rss of 800mb or so. Compare this > to -nographic, which has an rss of 10 mb or so. (The > floppy I'm booting is just a bunch of zeroes, the same thing > happens if I boot a real os such as a bsd install cd). > That should be fixed in the current git code. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net