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From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in xend
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:28:37 -0600
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Stefan de Konink wrote:
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> Jim Fehlig schreef:memory leak
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>> We observed OOM kills of xend after ~20 days in openSUSE build service
>> workers.  xend reached around 2.5 G virt, 1.5G res, and 1.8G shared
>> memory usage. Attached patch provides a plug.
>>     
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> Did you see problems after this patch? I have applied it on 3.2.1 which
> borks about missing vm_metrics.
>   

Yeah :-(.  The patch got committed as c/s 18030.  You'll also want 18064 
- and maybe even 18140.

See http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-07/msg01230.html

Jim