libvirtd memory leak in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution Verified - Updated -

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 --daemon

    4/22/2010

    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

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Close

Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.