From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:36:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3CEF27.4090908@redhat.com> References: <20091227155107.GK7104@defiant.freesoftware> <4B378546.6070104@redhat.com> <4B378C25.4070206@redhat.com> <4B378D6D.40505@redhat.com> <4B378F32.1050307@redhat.com> <4B379562.8060007@redhat.com> <4B37978F.5030009@redhat.com> <20091231150527.GA16528@defiant.freesoftware> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dbareiro@gmx.net, Avi Kivity , KVM General To: Hugh Dickins Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11725 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752735AbZLaSgb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:36:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/31/2009 12:02 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> >> What tests would be recommendable to make to reproduce the problem? > > Oh, I thought you were the one seeing the problem! If you cannot > easily reproduce it, then please don't spend too long over it. > > I've never noticed it myself (perhaps because my workaday loads are > too light, and my testing loads too heavy): I was just judging by > the content of Rik's patch. Rik cites AIM7 in his description, > but perhaps someone knows an easier way to demonstrate it; though > I was more interested in whether it also fixes the problem you saw. I believe Avi has seen the problem and is motivated to get the patch into -stable :) > Thanks go to Rik for the patch. And thanks for your report and > testing, but please don't put yourself out over it: the patch > already looks good, and I think it should go to -stable with > or without the commendation of whether it works for you. I agree that the patch should be safe for -stable. -- All rights reversed.