[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#646919: virt-manager: memory resource consumption is way too high

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.0-2
Severity: normal

This bug report is to ask the maintainers if there are memory leak
issues with virt-manager. On my box, with 1 Guest VM display open,
following is what was reported by top.


top - 17:16:30 up 2 days,  3:43,  5 users,  load average: 7.37, 8.72,
5.50
Tasks: 191 total,   2 running, 189 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 20.3%us,  3.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 31.7%id, 44.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   3038484k total,  2811852k used,   226632k free,      860k buffers
Swap:  3219452k total,   784912k used,  2434540k free,   270380k cached
PID to kill: 
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                            
20654 rrs       20   0 2080m 1.3g 5188 R   36 46.4   4:08.96 python                                                                             
17617 rrs       20   0  441m  33m 1492 S    3  1.1   5:50.10 chromium                                                                           
15967 root      20   0  311m  16m 2552 S    1  0.5   3:48.66 Xorg                                                                               
16138 rrs       20   0  853m  24m 4108 S    1  0.8   1:20.05
plasma-desktop                                                                     
16413 rrs       20   0  323m 8928 3696 S    1  0.3   0:01.95 konsole                                                                            
17534 rrs       20   0 44584 3444  256 S    1  0.1   0:15.44 ssh                                                                                
22027 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    1  0.0   0:00.70 kworker/1:0                                                                        
22299 rrs       20   0 21320 1224  812 R    1  0.0   0:00.19 top                                                                                
    1 root      20   0 10608   64   32 S    0  0.0   0:03.74 init                                                                               


This is on a machine with 3 GiB of real memory.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                   2.32.4-1  
ii  librsvg2-common          2.34.1-3  
ii  python                   2.7.2-9   
ii  python-dbus              0.84.0-2  
ii  python-glade2            2.24.0-2  
ii  python-gnome2            2.28.1-3  
ii  python-gtk-vnc           0.4.3-6+b1
ii  python-gtk2              2.24.0-2  
ii  python-ipy               1:0.72-1  
ii  python-libvirt           0.9.6-1   
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.7-3     
ii  python-support           1.0.14    
ii  python-urlgrabber        3.9.1-4   
ii  python-vte               1:0.28.2-1
ii  virtinst                 0.600.0-1 

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.2.1.2-1
ii  libvirt-bin       0.9.6-1  

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring              3.0.3-2    
ii  hal                        <none>     
ii  ksshaskpass [ssh-askpass]  0.5.3-1+b1 
ii  python-gnomekeyring        2.32.0-4+b1
ii  python-guestfs             1.13.23-1  
ii  ssh-askpass                1:1.2.4.1-9
ii  virt-viewer                0.4.1-3    

-- no debconf information