Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
reopen 767295 thanks The 4.4.1-4 release only included one related fix there are actually two more: commit 379b351889a8f02abe30a06e2ce9ba8b381b91ab Author: Ian Campbell Date: Thu Nov 6 13:00:31 2014 + tools: libxl: do not leak diskpath during lo

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 07:28 -0500, Gedalya wrote: > On 11/09/2014 07:18 AM, Gedalya wrote: > > That memory block is just a bit larger than the size of the initrd in > > the VM, could there be a connection? > > Nope. I changed the initrd to 2.6mb and that memory block is still > exactly at 23852

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-09 Thread Gedalya
On 11/09/2014 07:18 AM, Gedalya wrote: That memory block is just a bit larger than the size of the initrd in the VM, could there be a connection? Nope. I changed the initrd to 2.6mb and that memory block is still exactly at 23852 / 14464 / 14464. Actually the process size is around 12 mb whe

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-09 Thread Gedalya
On 11/09/2014 07:02 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 08:32 -0500, Gedalya wrote: On 11/08/2014 05:41 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: Please can you try running xl under valgrind, something similar to what I described earlier should work. I guess it didn't find much.. Indeed not :-/ I ma

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 08:32 -0500, Gedalya wrote: > On 11/08/2014 05:41 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Please can you try running xl under valgrind, something similar to what > > I described earlier should work. > I guess it didn't find much.. Indeed not :-/ I managed to get a test box up and runnin

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-08 Thread Gedalya
On 11/08/2014 05:41 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: Please can you try running xl under valgrind, something similar to what I described earlier should work. I guess it didn't find much.. # valgrind --leak-check=full xl cr -F /etc/xen/auto/asterisk_deb80.cfg ==6736== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 21:32 -0500, Gedalya wrote: > On 11/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I've posted a fix for this upstream: > > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-11/msg00542.html > > > > I've requested that it go into the next 4.4.x release. I also plan to > > backport

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-07 Thread Gedalya
On 11/06/2014 09:12 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I've posted a fix for this upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-11/msg00542.html I've requested that it go into the next 4.4.x release. I also plan to backport it to the package regardless once it is accepted into the dev branch.

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 12:14 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 17:36 -0400, Gedalya wrote: > > When booting domU's running amd64 jessie, I notice some memory problems > > with xl. > > I ran it (actually, upstream staging-4.4) under valgrind and it reported > after a reboot: > > =

Bug#767295: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-11-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 17:36 -0400, Gedalya wrote: > When booting domU's running amd64 jessie, I notice some memory problems > with xl. I ran it (actually, upstream staging-4.4) under valgrind and it reported after a reboot: ==5722== 24 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 35 of 7

Bug#767295: xl: apparent memory leak

2014-10-29 Thread Gedalya
Package: xen-utils-4.4 Version: 4.4.1-3 When booting domU's running amd64 jessie, I notice some memory problems with xl. root@xen:~# pmap -x 4121 4121: /usr/lib/xen-4.4/bin/xl create --quiet --defconfig /etc/xen/auto/mail_deb80.cfg Address Kbytes RSS Dirty Mode Mapping 000