From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Kinzler Subject: Re: RE: Stability report GPLPV 0.11.0.308 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:39:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4E6E7C01.4020708@hfp.de> References: <4E64A0DF.2070007@hfp.de> <4E64D569.5030607@hfp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06.09.2011 07:21, James Harper wrote: > I actually looked back through the changes and there is still a fix to come - basically > xennet allocates new buffers when it needs them, but never frees them again so if > there is a really big burst of traffic it could end up taking all the available memory. That > could cause the problem you are seeing. I'm a bit busy with some other things at the > moment but I hope to have a fix by the end of the week. I am currently running the torture test on 0.11.0.312 and did not see any increase in usage of kernel memory (uptime is over 7 days now with quite extreme load on net/disk). Anything new about your fix? Regards Andreas