[Spice-devel] Question about qemu spice memory use

[Josh Bressers]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:47 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
> Josh Bressers píše v Po 23. 01. 2012 v 12:24 -0500:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not on the list, so if you could CC me on replies it would be most
>> appreciated.
>>
>> I tried to dig around for this bug but came up dry, I'm hoping someone
>> here can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> I was playing Netflix video under windows XP (the host OS is Fedora
>> 16), my qemu memory use keeps climbing. If I switch the display to VNC
>> or spice with the generic VGA adapter (my bug is seen when using the
>> qlx adapter and drivers) the memory doesn't climb past what I would
>> expect.
>>
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> How long do you play the video, what is on-screen resolution of video,
> and what is the size of qemu memory overhead when it finishes?
>

The screen is set to 800x600. My VM is set to use 512MB of RAM.
Usually after about 30 minutes of video watching, the RAM use climbs
beyond 1.5 GB, at which point I shut down the VM as things start
running poorly on my machine.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB