From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, David Scott <dave@recoil.org>
Subject: Re: xenstored memory leak
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 17:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707162203.GH416@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577CB3DA.1090003@suse.com>
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:31:38AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> While testing some patches for support of ballooning in Mini-OS by using
> the xenstore domain I realized that each xl create/destroy pair would
> increase memory consumption in Mini-OS by about 5kB. Wondering whether
> this is a xenstore domain only effect I did the same test with xenstored
> and oxenstored daemons.
>
> xenstored showed the same behavior, the "referenced" size showed by the
> pmap command grew by about 5kB for each create/destroy pair.
>
> oxenstored seemed to be even worse in the beginning (about 6kB for each
> pair), but after about 100 create/destroys the value seemed to be
> rather stable.
>
> Did anyone notice this memory leak before?
>
No. But I don't normally look at xenstored memory consumption anyway...
> David, it seems ocaml based xenstore doesn't have such a problem. How
> mature is the xenstore Mirage-OS variant? Could it be easily integrated
> into the Xen build?
>
>
> Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-07 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-06 7:31 xenstored memory leak Juergen Gross
2016-07-06 13:48 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-06 13:55 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-06 13:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-07 16:22 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-07-13 12:21 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 12:40 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-13 13:21 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 13:30 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-13 13:07 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-13 13:17 ` David Vrabel
2016-07-13 13:32 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 13:37 ` David Vrabel
2016-07-13 14:28 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-13 14:50 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 13:20 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-13 13:47 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-13 13:25 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 13:52 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-13 14:09 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-13 14:18 ` Wei Liu
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