Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > 2008/3/19, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Zdenek Kabelac wrote: >> > 2008/3/16, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >> Zdenek Kabelac wrote: >> >> > Hello >> >> > >> >> > Recently I'm using qemu-kvm on fedora-rawhide box with my own kernels >> >> > (with many debug options) I've noticed that over the time my memory >> >> > seems to disappear somewhere. >> >> > >> >> > Here is my memory trace after boot and some time of work - thus memory >> >> > should be populated. >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> No idea how these should add up. What does 'free' say? >> >> >> > >> > Ok - here goes my free log (I'm loggin free prior each start of my >> qemu-kvm >> > so here is the log for this afternoon: >> > (I'm running same apps all the time - except during kernel compilation >> > I'm reading some www pages - and working with gnome-terminal - so some >> > slightly more memory could have been eaten by them - but not in the >> > range of hundreds of MB) >> > >> > >> >> >> Can you make sure that it isn't other processes? Go to runlevel 3 and >> start the VM using vnc or X-over-network? >> > > Hmmm not really sure what do you mean by external VNC - I could grab > this info once I'll finish some work today and kill all the apps > running in the system - so most of the memory should be released - > will go to single mode for this - is this what do you want ? > >
The -vnc switch, so there's no local X server. A remote X server should be fine as well. Use runlevel 3, which means network but no local X server. >> What host kernel and kvm version are you using? >> > > Usually running quite up-to-date Linus git tree kernel - > Both host/guest are running 2.6.25-rc6 kernels > For compiling using gcc-4.3 > > kvm itself is fedora rawhide package: > kvm-63-2.fc9.x86_64 > > (somehow I've troubles to compile the kvm-userspace git tree as libkvm > mismatches my kernel version - which probably means I would have to > use kvm linux kernel to use kvm-userspace ??) > If running kvm.git, do ./configure --with-patched-kernel. Please report kvm compiler errors. > (actually why the gcc-3.x is preferred when this compiler is IMHO far > more broken then 4.3 ?) > > qemu requires gcc 3. The kernel may be compiled with any gcc that it supports. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
