CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0

Mon May 31 09:11:27 UTC 2010

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.

Other than that, it works great.

Thanks,
\Anton.

> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> last pid: 55073;  load averages:  1.27,  1.30,  1.21 
>                     up 0+00:48:13  10:52:47
> 161 processes: 2 running, 159 sleeping
> CPU:  2.9% user,  0.0% nice, 23.7% system,  0.3% interrupt, 73.1% idle
> Mem: 4772M Active, 893M Inact, 2007M Wired, 211M Cache, 297M Buf, 23M Free
> Swap: 16G Total, 1980M Used, 14G Free, 12% Inuse
> 
>    PID USERNAME      THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU 
> COMMAND
> 17030 daichi         14  44    0  8038M  6306M select  0  42:52 100.39% 
> VirtualBox
>   1922 daichi         13  44    0   568M   248M ucond   2   1:49  0.00% 
> firefox-bin
>   1912 daichi         16  44    0   349M   100M ucond   1   0:53  0.00% 
> thunderbird-bin
> 49442 daichi         15  44    0   335M 84380K ucond   2   1:01  0.00% vlc
>   1860 daichi          1  44    0   285M 38196K select  2   0:02  0.00% 
> pidgin
>   1339 root            1  44    0   267M  1120K select  1   0:00  0.00% 
> rpc.statd
>   1836 daichi          1  45    0   250M 79960K select  0   1:48  2.59% Xorg
>   1861 daichi          1  45    0   161M 23680K select  0   1:21  2.10% 
> compiz
> 15381 daichi          4  44    0   128M 18936K ucond   1   0:01  0.00% 
> VirtualBox
>   1863 daichi          1  44    0   124M 15628K select  2   0:01  0.00% 
> python
>   1635 root            1  44    0   115M  3340K select  2   0:00  0.00% 
> httpd
>   1684 www             1  62    0   115M     0K accept  2   0:00  0.00% 
> <httpd>
>   1685 www             1  63    0   115M     0K accept  3   0:00  0.00% 
> <httpd>
>   1683 www             1  62    0   115M     0K accept  0   0:00  0.00% 
> <httpd>
>   1686 www             1  62    0   115M     0K accept  0   0:00  0.00% 
> <httpd>
>   1687 www             1  62    0   115M     0K accept  2   0:00  0.00% 
> <httpd>
>   1946 daichi          2  52    0   103M 16828K piperd  0   0:03  0.00% 
> Terminal
>   1838 daichi          2  44    0    99M 10436K piperd  0   0:00  0.00% 
> xfce4-panel
>   1881 daichi          1  44    0 92280K 14152K select  2   0:02  0.00% 
> emerald
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I give 1GB mem for Guest OS(WinXP) of host mem 8GB. But VirtualBox
> consumes over 8GB and getting bigger by bigger, memory consumer.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> On 2010/05/30 21:28, Daichi GOTO wrote:
> > Thanks great work!
> >
> > Tested on fresh current machine and VirtualBox 3.2.0 (all
> > default options) working well.
> >
> > /home/daichi% uname -a
> > FreeBSD parancell.ongs.co.jp 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #19
> > r208649: Sun May 30 12:38:16 JST 2010
> > root at parancell.ongs.co.jp:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PARANCELL amd64
> > /home/daichi% ls /var/db/pkg/| grep virtualbox
> > virtualbox-ose-3.2.0
> > virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.0
> > /home/daichi%
> >
> > checked gest os:
> > Ubuntu 10.04
> > Windows 7/Vista/XP/Sefver 2008
> >
> >
> > On 2010/05/29 22:22, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The vbox@ team is happy to announce a call for tester for VirtualBox
> >> 3.2.0.
> >>
> >> The VirtualBox 3.2.0 changelog is available here:
> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
> >>
> >> Changes to the port:
> >> - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.2.0.
> >> - Add option to build with VNC support (Disabled by default)
> >> - Add option to build with VDE support (Disabled by default)
> >> - Add option to build webservice (Disabled by default)
> >> - Fix build with QT4 support disabled and X11 support enabled.
> >> - Replace custom pkg-install.in script with GROUPS framework.
> >> - Do not build Guest Additions in virtualbox-ose port.
> >> - Add patch to implement locking/unlocking of host DVD drive.
> >>
> >> You will find a tarball with the latest port version here:
> >> https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Please check the wiki page for known problems:
> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
> >>
> >> Please backup your virtual machines before upgrading and report any
> >> functionality which was working with previous versions of VirtualBox and
> >> no longer working with 3.2.0, any build failures or problems with the
> >> newly added port options.
> >>
> >> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers (especially Alexander Eichner
> >> for all his work and help), all tester and patch submitter and the whole
> >> vbox@ team especially decke at .
> >>
> >> Beat, on behalf of vbox@
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