libvirtd memory leak in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- libvirtd is slowly leaking memory.
- On our Test dom0 we have 3 VM's running and we've noticed that libvirtd's memory footprint is slowly growing.
4/15/2010
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 8233 0.5 1.6 246288 33960 ? Sl Apr09 50:02 libvirtd --daemon4/22/2010
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 8233 0.4 2.0 254968 42908 ? Sl Apr09 76:02 libvirtd --daemon - On our Dev dom0 which has ~25 VM's the issue is worse.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 15051 3.2 58.4 2934576 2453496 ? Sl Feb19 2912:12 libvirtd --daemon
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64
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