Bug 618685

Summary: mem-leak on guests with high disk IO
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan ONDREJ <ondrejj>
Component: qemuAssignee: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: amit.shah, berrange, dwmw2, ehabkost, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, markmc, ondrejj, scottt.tw, virt-maint
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eb58a6c556c3880e6712cbf6d24d681261c5095
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Description Jan ONDREJ 2010-07-27 14:33:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Some of my virtual machines eats more memory like defined in configuration. It is sometime more than 3-times like in definition. For example should use 2.5 GB RAM, but top shows:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
 2412 qemu      20   0 7563m 3.5g 1092 S 99.7 22.2   7926:00 qemu-kvm           

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.3-2.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
aprox. one week after guest reboot, guest memory usage is growing with constant usage.

Steps to Reproduce:
I am not sure, if it is reproducible on your machine, but I think this was already fixed upstream, so may be no need to reproduce.
  
Additional info:
qemu-0.12.4 has an fix for:
  Fix multiwrite memory leak in error case

May be this patch helps:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eb58a6c556c3880e6712cbf6d24d681261c5095

If there are no plans to release 0.12.4 for Fedora, is it possible to patch current stable qemu-kvm?

I can recheck, if you push an updates-testing package.

Comment 1 Jan ONDREJ 2010-07-27 18:03:54 UTC
Created attachment 434794 [details]
Another patch

May be we need to apply also this patch before.

Comment 2 Jan ONDREJ 2010-08-25 19:28:38 UTC
Looks like this is fixed in qemu-0.12.5-1.fc13. Any chance to get this into F12 too? If not, I will update my host to F13.

And I tested to compile this patch (+any other from upstream) and looks like it helped to leave memory usage at constant value (I think it's still high, but at least not increasing).

My mail server should use 2.5 GB memory, but top says:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
 2768 qemu      20   0 5443m 3.8g 1116 S  3.8 24.0  12558:01 qemu-kvm           

5 GB VIRT (>2*defined_memory) and 3.8 GB RES.

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