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

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Mon Oct 31 07:16:22 UTC 2011


Hi,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:19:39PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> 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.

Nothing that I know of. vmm has 36 res here. You didn't give any details
about the used connection uri though (so I'm assuming qemu:///system).

Maybe you can gain some information running it under valgrind? Here's a
nice set of parameters or GObject based programs:

https://live.gnome.org/Valgrind

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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