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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:07:52 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] memory leak in block/xen_disk in
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On Tue, Dec 11, Paul Durrant wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org] On Beha=
lf
> > Of Olaf Hering
> > Sent: 11 December 2018 15:31
> > To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] memory leak in block/xen_disk in qemu-3.x
> >=20
> > What are the live time rules of ioreq->buf?
> > In my testing the memory usage of qemu is constantly growing from about
> > 250MB to several GB after a few days.
> Are you perhaps running into the problem addressed by this patch?
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg00244.html

This looks like a fix, rather than an improvement.
More than a month passed already, why is it not yet in qemu.git#master?

Olaf

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