Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#8907 closed defect
Shared folder memory leak — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Sean | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | shared folders | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.8 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
I'm using VirtualBox 4.0.8 on an OS X 10.6.7 host with Ubuntu 11.04 as a guest operating system.
The bug involves shared folders and leaking memory. Whenever I have a folder mounted, memory is slowly consumed by VirtualBox. The memory shows up when I run 'top', but not as being used by a process, just that it's consumed by something that isn't internal to the guest OS. I can watch it consume more and more as time progresses. Typically if I develop for a few hours, walk away to get lunch and come back, sometime in between my guest OS starts to crash because it's out of memory.
I have attached a screenshot that is about 60 minutes of use after a reboot. All I have done is executed ant/javac a handful of times for development. If I leave it in this state and leave, when I come back the VirtualBox console will show out-of-memory errors and I'll have to restart it.
Inside the guest Ubuntu install as well as Activity Monitor showing the memory consumption