[libvirt-users] libvirtd using 11GB

Michal Privoznik
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:55:46 -0000

On 16.04.2013 10:34, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Am new to this list, and have asked in #ovirt / ovirt-users list and
> they pointed me to here ... I've seen libvirtd using ~11 GB of resident
> memory after the host has been running for about 60+ days with about 40
> VMs running on it.
>
> The versions I'm currently running are :
>
> libvirt.x86_64         0.9.10-21.el6_3.7
> libvirt-client.x86_64  0.9.10-21.el6_3.7
> libvirt-lock-sanlock.x86_64
> libvirt-python.x86_64  0.9.10-21.el6_3.7
>
> I know I can just restart libvirtd and "all should be fine" (and
> hopefully I'll regain the 11GB of memory) - however, is there an
updated
> version that maybe fixes a memory leak ??

Yes. John Ferlan did a great job in hunting memory leaks down. Most of
his fixes went to 1.0.3, some into 1.0.4 or even 1.0.2.

Michal