[Qemu-devel] [FYI] memory leak in 0.14.0rc1 ?

[Torsten Förtsch]

Hi,

perhaps this is the wrong list. If so then please accept my apology.

I am trying out the opensuse kvm rpm from the Virtualization repository:

  
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64/kvm-0.14.0.rc1-67.1.x86_64.rpm

I have installed winxp and run the machine as "/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name xp.home 
-m 768 ...".

On the machine I have compiled perl from the sources.

After a fresh start, when I try to run the perl test suite the process size 
grows to ~2500 Mb with an RSS of 2.2 Gb. On a second run of the test suite the 
process size and RSS continue to grow.

I'd expect the memory consumption to be limited somewhere between 768 Mb and 1 
Gb.

See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671809

Torsten Förtsch