Bug 10226

Summary:	memory leak in libvirtd
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Renaud Michel <r.h.michel+mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	alien, arnaud.patard, thierry.vignaud
Version:	3	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	libvirt-1.0.2-7.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	graph of libvirtd memory consumption

Description Renaud Michel 2013-05-22 18:48:00 CEST

Description of problem:
libvirtd memory consumption increase over time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
First saw the problem with libvirt 1.0.2 from core/release.
I tried compiling the latest stable (1.0.5, the changelog mention some fixed memory leaks), but the problem is the same.

How reproducible:
After a restart of the libvirtd service, the libvirtd process will first use about 10MB RAM, than its memory will start increasing at approximatelly 2MB/hour.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Renaud Michel 2013-05-22 18:51:24 CEST

Created attachment 4026 [details]
graph of libvirtd memory consumption

The first big rise which topped at 37MB was with libvirt 1.0.2
The second which is currently at 26 MB is with libvirt 1.0.5

Manuel Hiebel 2013-05-24 23:42:31 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => alien, arnaud.patard, thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:11 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD