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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>,
	user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com,
	user-mode-linux-devel
	<user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [user-mode-linux] memory leak in network path
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 19:27:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5765848C.1030206@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1606181253400.8594@atlantide2>

Hi!

Am 18.06.2016 um 13:02 schrieb Enrico Mioso:
> Hi guys.
> 
> I am experiencing an user-mode-linux memory leak, that induces the user-mode kernel to eventually panic.
> 
> My sequence of actions to trigger it is relatively simple:
> - start it on an ubuntu 16.04 core image, after installing "ubuntu-standard" package
> - install aptitude and openssh-server if needed
> 
> When I type
> sudo aptitude build-dep gnuradio
> (but any package with lots of dependencies may do), I can see used memory by UML growing and growing.
> When the allocation limit I specify in the command line is reached, then it crashes.
> 
> This problem is triggerable pretty reliably on my box:
> Running a custom-compiled 4.4.12 kernel.
> 
> 
> UML kernel version: 4.6.1-usermodelinux
> 
> Thank you very much guys for your work and attention,

Please share the log of the crash.
How did you figure that UML is consuming more and more memory?

Thanks,
//richard

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