#1004993 virt-viewer: severe memory leak

Package:
virt-viewer
Source:
virt-viewer
Description:
Displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine
Submitter:
Nathan Dorfman
Date:
2022-04-18 13:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1004993#5
Date:
2022-02-05 05:39:02 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Using the remote-viewer command to connect via SPICE to a VM running on the
local host:

remote-viewer spice://localhost:5901

VM and host are both running bullseye with the MATE desktop. There are two
1900x1200 monitors, and I'm using both of them in full-screen mode with
remote-viewer.

At first, memory usage, as reported by `ps -o rss`, is stable, staying under
800MB for the first 22 hours or so. After that, it begins to rise rapidly,
reaching 10GB another 13 hours or so later.

A gnuplot image of the RSS (in kilobytes) over time:

https://rtfm.net/ndorf/remote-viewer-rss.png
#1004993#10
Date:
2022-04-18 13:18:35 UTC
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Would this be fixed with the experimental 9.0-1 version?