Hi Andreas, 

Maybe you allocate a lot of shared memory segments for UPF? I seem to remember 
you were using the host stack, are you using it in this test?

Florin

> On May 9, 2019, at 9:17 AM, Andreas Schultz <andreas.schu...@travelping.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Something in VPP (most likely my UPF/GTP plugin) is causing an abnormal high 
> virtual memory consumption. `show memory` without and with memory-trace 
> enable can not explain it.
> 
> With some 10k sessions I see as much as 1TB virtual memory usage, but only 
> about 200MB or so residential memory. `show memory` also only reports about 
> 200MB.
> 
> My best guess is that something requests virtual memory pages from the OS and 
> does not return them.
> Any hint on how to track this down? What in VPP could request that much 
> virtual memory without actually using it?
> 
> Many thanks
> Andreas
> 
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