Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:30:57 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc5-git5 KVM memory not freed |
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Ioan Ionita wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using KVM and the qemu kvm modified to run a windows guest. I'm > allocating 900 MB to the guest. Seems that when I terminate a qemu > process, the memory that was allocated to qemu is not freed: > > > Mem: 2058140 1739156 318984 0 226944 425140 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1087072 971068 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > So I'm using 1GB of ram even though I've terminated qemu. If I attempt > to start qemu again, the machine locks up. No message in the logs. > > Command to start qemu: > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 b.data -no-acpi -m 900 -net nic > -net user -hdb temp.raw -usbdevice tablet > > uname -a > Linux ops-desktop 2.6.25-rc5-git5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 15 14:47:25 > EET 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > Not sure whether this is a problem on the kernel side. I don't > pretend to understand linux memory management. But it wasn't occurring > with older kernels. I'll attempt to bisect. >
I reproduced this and am investigating.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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