Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-23 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/04/2010 05:12 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Sun January 3 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Sun December 27 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/27/2009 07:00 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all of your guests (do th

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-04 Thread David S. Ahern
On 01/04/2010 08:12 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > Would this be normal for my setup? The virt usage seems abnormally high for > all of my guests, especially the ones using over 800MB virt. > As I understand it virtual memory usage shows the allocated address ranges (library mappings, dynamic

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-04 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Sun January 3 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Sun December 27 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 12/27/2009 07:00 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > >> Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all > > >> of your guests (do that before any of the other tests, on your > > >> swa

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-03 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Sun December 27 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/27/2009 07:00 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >> Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all > >> of your guests (do that before any of the other tests, on your > >> swapped-out system). > > > >

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-02 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/31/2009 08:36 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: I believe Avi has seen the problem and is motivated to get the patch into -stable :) I did not actually see the problem myself. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe f

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2010-01-01 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Hugh. On Thursday, 31 December 2009 17:02:49 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > > What tests would be recommendable to make to reproduce the problem? > > Oh, I thought you were the one seeing the problem! If you cannot > easily reproduce it, then

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On 12/31/2009 12:02 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Daniel Bareiro wrote: What tests would be recommendable to make to reproduce the problem? Oh, I thought you were the one seeing the problem! If you cannot easily reproduce it, then please don't spend too long over it. I've nev

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > What tests would be recommendable to make to reproduce the problem? Oh, I thought you were the one seeing the problem! If you cannot easily reproduce it, then please don't spend too long over it. I've never noticed it myself (perhaps because my wor

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-31 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Hugh. On Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:14:30 +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On 12/27/2009 12:12 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > On 12/27/2009 06:45 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > > > > If so, it doesn't copy sta...@kernel.org. Is it queued for -st

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-30 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 12/27/2009 12:12 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 12/27/2009 06:45 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > > If so, it doesn't copy sta...@kernel.org. Is it queued for -stable? > > > > > > I do not believe that it is queued for -stable. > > > > > > Do perfor

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-28 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Avi. On Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:03:18 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 in one equipment of my house yesterday >> to test it with Linux 2.6.32 compiled by myself from the source code >> of kernel.org. >> >> From the night of yesterday that I am observing a high use

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Avi. On Sunday, 27 December 2009 19:33:31 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all of your guests (do that before any of the other tests, on your swapped-out system). >>> --

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/27/2009 07:20 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/27/2009 07:00 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all of your guests (do that before any of the other tests, on your swapped-out system).

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On 12/27/2009 12:12 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/27/2009 06:45 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: If so, it doesn't copy sta...@kernel.org. Is it queued for -stable? I do not believe that it is queued for -stable. Do performance fixes fit with -stable policy? If it is a serious regression, I believe

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/27/2009 07:00 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Also, qemu might be leaking memory. Please post 'pmap $pid' for all of your guests (do that before any of the other tests, on your swapped-out system). - total

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/27/2009 06:45 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: If so, it doesn't copy sta...@kernel.org. Is it queued for -stable? I do not believe that it is queued for -stable. Do performance fixes fit with -stable policy? If it is a serious regression, I believe it fits. -- error compiling committee.c:

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Avi. On Sunday, 27 December 2009 18:03:18 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 in one equipment of my house yesterday >> to test it with Linux 2.6.32 compiled by myself from the source code >> of kernel.org. >> [...] >> >> This is what I obtain with 'free' in the host: >

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On 12/27/2009 11:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/27/2009 06:32 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: Probably a regression in Linux swapping. Rik, Hugh, are you aware of any? Hugh posted something but it appears to be performance related, not causing early swap. Yes, it is a smal bug in the VM. A fix has be

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/27/2009 06:32 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: Probably a regression in Linux swapping. Rik, Hugh, are you aware of any? Hugh posted something but it appears to be performance related, not causing early swap. Yes, it is a smal bug in the VM. A fix has been committed to 2.6.33 already. Is this

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On 12/27/2009 11:03 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/27/2009 05:51 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, all! I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 in one equipment of my house yesterday to test it with Linux 2.6.32 compiled by myself from the source code of kernel.org. From the night of yesterday that I am observ

Re: Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/27/2009 05:51 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, all! I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 in one equipment of my house yesterday to test it with Linux 2.6.32 compiled by myself from the source code of kernel.org. From the night of yesterday that I am observing a high use of swap. This is the Servic

Memory usage with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1

2009-12-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, all! I installed qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 in one equipment of my house yesterday to test it with Linux 2.6.32 compiled by myself from the source code of kernel.org. From the night of yesterday that I am observing a high use of swap. This is the Service Log Entries from Nagios: 12-26-2009 21:57:33