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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in xend

To: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>, Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix memory leak in xend
From: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:14:54 +0800
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I also encountered this many times. I come up with a patch.

Jim, please review.

thanks,

zhigang

Stefan de Konink wrote:
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>> We observed OOM kills of xend after ~20 days in openSUSE build service
>> workers.  xend reached around 2.5 G virt, 1.5G res, and 1.8G shared
>> memory usage. Attached patch provides a plug.
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> Did you see problems after this patch? I have applied it on 3.2.1 which
> borks about missing vm_metrics.
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> Stefan
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This patch prevent VM metrics destroy from raising exceptions.

Everytime an error accured during VM start, VM metrics destroy will raise an 
exception and override the right exception which should be raised to the upper
invocation.

Signed-off-by: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- xen-unstable/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py        2008-08-28 
10:17:49.000000000 +0800
+++ xen-unstable.local/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py  2008-08-29 
09:04:11.000000000 +0800
@@ -2656,7 +2656,11 @@ class XendDomainInfo:
 
         from xen.xend import XendDomain
         if not XendDomain.instance().is_domain_managed(self):
-            self.metrics.destroy()
+            try:
+                self.metrics.destroy()
+            except:
+                log.exception("Destroy VM metrics failed.")
+
         self._unwatchVm()
 
         try:
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