[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] Free memory buffers when not used

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 18:26:45 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 06:47:41PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> While supermin is a short-lived application, some of the allocated
> buffers depend on sizes from the filesystem being read, which could lead
> to keep too much memory allocated and potentially not allowing supermin
> to run properly.

ACK.

See also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099172

I've only worked around this (by excluding various /var/log files).

Rich.

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