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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] memory leak in xend
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:23:47 -0500
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To: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
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Christopher S. Aker wrote:

>http://www.theshore.net/~caker/xen/memory-week.png
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>The flat spot towards the end is from when I stopped running the above command.
>Thanks for looking into this!
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I found this article while Googling.

http://evanjones.ca/python-memory.html

It specifically calls out Twisted as being known to cause this sort of 
behavior in the Python VM.

For what it's worth, I've been able to reproduce this memory leakage 
also with Xend.

A workaround for current systems could be a cron job that restarts Xend 
every few days.

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

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