John Levon wrote:
Running virsh with the remote driver (as it always is on Solaris), it
leaks pretty heavily:
thewhip:~ # yes start fewfewf | virsh /dev/null 21
[1] 6388
# prstat -c -p 6388
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
6388 root 10M 6788K sleep 590 0:00:02 0.2% virsh/1
Total: 1 processes, 1 lwps, load averages: 0.32, 0.12, 0.06
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
6388 root 11M 7104K sleep 590 0:00:02 0.3% virsh/1
Total: 1 processes, 1 lwps, load averages: 0.34, 0.12, 0.06
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
6388 root 11M 7160K sleep 590 0:00:02 0.3% virsh/1
Total: 1 processes, 1 lwps, load averages: 0.36, 0.13, 0.07
Can you reproduce on Linux anyone?
Yeah, it seems there is no limit on the size of the readline history,
so it just grows forever. Try this?
-jim
From a65339502c996dbeea9b6f3172a6cb8a2669f153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Paris j...@jtan.com
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:21:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] virsh: limit history entries
Limit the number of readline history entries in virsh, to avoid
unbounded memory usage.
---
src/virsh.c |3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c
index fd23e9f..e879982 100644
--- a/src/virsh.c
+++ b/src/virsh.c
@@ -6776,6 +6776,9 @@ vshReadlineInit(void)
/* Tell the completer that we want a crack first. */
rl_attempted_completion_function = vshReadlineCompletion;
+
+/* Limit the total size of the history buffer */
+stifle_history(500);
}
static char *
--
1.5.6.5
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