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

[Daniel Reurich]

Hi Salvatore,

No. You are right the leak is still there.  The newer version in wheezy 
did fix another issue I had though.

Any chance of applying the patching to the wheezy version?  It's a 
really annoying bug.

My apologies for the misdirection.

Daniel

On 09/04/15 18:58, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> PGP-Key 0xD40E0E7A
>>
>> 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.
>
> Are you sure about this? The debian/changelog for 0.1.9-2 in wheezy
> reads as:
>
> netcf (0.1.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
>
>    * Add debug package (Closes: #650817)
>    * Link against libnl rather than libnl-3 (Closes: #651033)
>      - debian/control - fix dependencies
>      - Don't apply first two patches
>
>   -- Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:20:49 -0600
>
> but the netcf-debian-memleak.patch patch was added separately in Ubuntu. It
> though should be present in a later version:
>
> netcf (1:0.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
>
>    * netcf-debian-memleak.patch: prevent a memory leak when listing
>      interfaces
>
>   -- Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:58:20 +0000
>
> AFAICS.
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
>

No it didn't. You are right the leak is still there.  (I should have 
read the changelogs - The newer version in wheezy did fix another issue 
I had though.)

My apologies for the misdirection.

Daniel

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