Re: [libvirt] Leaky virsh?

John Levon wrote: > > Running virsh with the remote driver (as it always is on Solaris), it > leaks pretty heavily: Yeah, it seems there is no limit on the size of the readline history, so it just grows forever. Try this?

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:21:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] virsh: limit history entries Limit the number of readline history entries in virsh, to avoid unbounded memory usage. --- src/virsh.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c index fd23e9f..e879982 100644 --- a/src/virsh.c +++ b/src/virsh.c @@ -6776,6 +6776,9 @@ vshReadlineInit(void) /* Tell the completer that we want a crack first. */ rl_attempted_completion_function = vshReadlineCompletion; + + /* Limit the total size of the history buffer */ + stifle_history(500); } static char *