qemu-kvm memory usage grows considerably beyond assigned guest memory
Issue
- Suspected memory leak on qemu-kvm, its memory usage grows way beyond the defined guest memory.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
- qemu-kvm-1.5.3-175.el7_9.4
- Guest configured with virtio-scsi block device
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