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Date:      Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:45:54 +0200
From:      Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Daichi GOTO <daichi@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0
Message-ID:  <4C0795F2.90004@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimHYbFXai9_kuGQLij7a9VseAQTByk2W3wY_Szc@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4C011524.7050806@FreeBSD.org>	<4C03B42B.2080206@protected-networks.net>	<5bae657843a7c00f05c14c2bed884364@bluelife.at>	<201005311906.30257.lobo@bsd.com.br> <AANLkTimHYbFXai9_kuGQLij7a9VseAQTByk2W3wY_Szc@mail.gmail.com>

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Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo@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@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.

Thanks,
Beat



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