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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181211160752.GD18447@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c1c30c147444cea915ee1befa56cf6@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net>


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On Tue, Dec 11, Paul Durrant wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org] On Behalf
> > Of Olaf Hering
> > Sent: 11 December 2018 15:31
> > To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x
> > 
> > What are the live time rules of ioreq->buf?
> > In my testing the memory usage of qemu is constantly growing from about
> > 250MB to several GB after a few days.
> Are you perhaps running into the problem addressed by this patch?
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00244.html

This looks like a fix, rather than an improvement.
More than a month passed already, why is it not yet in qemu.git#master?

Olaf

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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181211160752.GD18447@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c1c30c147444cea915ee1befa56cf6@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net>

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On Tue, Dec 11, Paul Durrant wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org] On Behalf
> > Of Olaf Hering
> > Sent: 11 December 2018 15:31
> > To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x
> > 
> > What are the live time rules of ioreq->buf?
> > In my testing the memory usage of qemu is constantly growing from about
> > 250MB to several GB after a few days.
> Are you perhaps running into the problem addressed by this patch?
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00244.html

This looks like a fix, rather than an improvement.
More than a month passed already, why is it not yet in qemu.git#master?

Olaf

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 15:30 memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x Olaf Hering
2018-12-11 15:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Olaf Hering
2018-12-11 16:01 ` Paul Durrant
2018-12-11 16:01   ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2018-12-11 16:07   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2018-12-11 16:07     ` Olaf Hering
2018-12-11 16:15     ` Paul Durrant
2018-12-11 16:15       ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant

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