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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:10:39 -0500
From:      Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
To:        Beat Gaetzi <beat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Daichi GOTO <daichi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinzpxbG5bIcT0hztW87IrQpHdO47SAUaOEVRAkY@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Beat Gaetzi <beat@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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. =A0WinXP guest, amd64-CURRENT (from
>>>>>> 2010-05-10) host. =A0100% 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 additio=
ns
>>>>> 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 detecte=
d!

Thank you so much!

-Brandon



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