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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: virtio net regression
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:21:00 +0300
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Antoine Martin wrote:
>> You're out of memory.
>>     
> That's quite odd, the guest wasn't even hitting the swap at the tine.
>   

But you do have swap enabled?

  

>> Strange, seems to be a bit of free memory here.
>>     
> There should be lots, all this host is doing is apache+sftp...
>
> Assuming I can make it re-occur (stress testing it?), how would I dig
> further to find the cause of this memory exhaustion? /proc/meminfo and
> friends?
>   

Yes please.  Maybe virtio is leaking memory.

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