CFT: VirtualBox 3.2.0

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:05:47 -0400, Michael Butler
<imb at 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!

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Bernhard Fröhlich
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