[Spice-devel] Question about qemu spice memory use

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:42:01AM -0500, Josh Bressers wrote:
> 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.

Could be jpeg images are not being released. Can you run under valgrind?
not a fun experience but you can save the guest without valgrind and
launch the valgrind from the saved snapshot, avoiding the bootup time
(or any interaction with a slow vm).

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
>     JB
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