Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu core file size

[Wanpeng Li]

2017-11-06 20:02 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>:
> On 06/11/2017 12:59, Fam Zheng wrote:
>>>> Could you point out the patchset for the fix?
>>> Between 447b0d0b9ee8a0ac216c3186e0f3c427a1001f0c and
>>> 092aa2fc65b7a35121616aad8f39d47b8f921618.
>> Not sure how these relate to the core size, but I've tested upstream
>> (ec7a8bf0b8f7dc7288fe8745464ee8217528cc6c) and with dump-guest-core=off the 
>> core
>> file is 363M, still significantly larger than rss (~73M).
>>
>> What is bloating the core file?
>
> My guess would have been fragmented heap.  The core file, unlike the
> RSS, includes all the mmaped memory (e.g. from shared libraries) that
> has never been used.
>
> For example, all the Ceph/Gluster/PulseAudio/SPICE/whatever libraries
> are included in the core file but likely are not in the RSS.

Do you mean not use Memory API will avoid the fragmented heap?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li