[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#709335: libvirtd memory leakage

[Daniel Reurich]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:12:02 +0100 Horst Schirmeier 
<horst at schirmeier.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> > We're seeing this on x86-64 Wheezy with the libvirt backports version
> > (currently 1.2.9-9~bpo70+1), too.  A virt-manager client was attached
> > several days, ramping up libvirtd memory usage (RES) to >8GB.
> >
> > The workaround (restarting libvirtd) helped.
>
> PS: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcf/+bug/1201938> may
> be related.  There, the netcf package was identified as the culprit, and
> patched successfully.
>
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As per the launchpad bug, the leak is in the netcf package, and that bug 
has been fixed in netcf version 0.1.9-2 in Wheezy.

Upgrade your netcf package and then restart libvirt.


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Daniel Reurich
Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd.