On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Steve Kemp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu May 19, 2011 at 09:40:41 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
>> You are exercising both networking and storage.  Have you cut the test
>> down to just wget vs cp/rm?  Also why the sleep 10?
>
>  I'm 99% certain the leak is coming from the virtio block device
>  now.  A simple test is:
>
>  wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/misc/test-files/500M
>  while true; do cp 500M foo.img; rm foo.img; sleep 2; done
>
>  "top" shows the virt memory growing to >1gb in under two minutes.

Were you able to track down the culprit?

Stefan
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