CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0
Brandon Gooch
jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 14:10:41 UTC 2010
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Beat Gaetzi <beat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Brandon Gooch wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
>>> On Monday 31 May 2010 15:14:01 Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:05:47 -0400, Michael Butler
>>>>
>>>> <imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 05/31/10 04:55, Anton Berezin wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:01:04AM +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote:
>>>>>>> Memory leaks there I have noticed. Look at follow message of top(1):
>>>>>> I also experience memory leaks. WinXP guest, amd64-CURRENT (from
>>>>>> 2010-05-10) host. 100% CPU load when the guest is doing nothing, and
>>>>>> memory
>>>>>> usage keeps growing at a rather alarming pace.
>>>>> Just an observation - this appears to be related to using the additions
>>>>> from 3.2.0. Using VBox 3.2.0 with the 3.1.8 additions doesn't appear to
>>>>> display the leak - no idea what triggers this behaviour,
>>>> I've just talked to the virtualbox developers and this is obviously an
>>>> known bug in the 3.2.0 additions. As a workaround you can use the 3.1.8
>>>> additions and they said it will be fixed with 3.2.2.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>> Actually, this problem doesn't happen up to
>>> VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA1.iso.
>>>
>>> VBoxGuestAdditions_3.2.0_BETA2.iso and newer do have it.
>>
>> I can confirm this. For the record.
>
> I've updated the port in our repository to 3.2.2 which should fix the
> memory leak. Could you please check if the problem is solved now.
Running for about an hour now (Windows 7 32-bit guest) and no leaks detected!
Thank you so much!
-Brandon
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