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

[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 it to the package regardless once it is accepted into the dev
> > branch.
> >
> > Ian.
> 
> So I've tried building xen 4.4.1-3 with this patch (attached), and I 
> replaced the binary packages libxen-4.4 and xen-utils-4.4 with the new ones.
> The situation is the same: the xl process for jessie amd64 guests starts 
> off at a resident size of 15mb as opposed to ~500kb for wheezy i386 
> guests. At guest reboot it jumps to 17mb and then, after a few seconds, 
> to ~34mb.
> I also rebooted the host to help make sure the test is valid.

Please can you try running xl under valgrind, something similar to what
I described earlier should work.

Could you also post your guest cfg file please.

Thanks,
Ian.