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[Chuck Short <chuck.short@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: nova/icehouse
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: nova/icehouse
    Milestone: None => 2014.1.2

** Changed in: nova/icehouse
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags removed: icehouse-backport-potential

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316433

Title:
  vmware: nova compute memory grows continuously with creation and
  deletions on VMs

Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova) icehouse series:
  Fix Committed
Status in The OpenStack VMwareAPI subTeam:
  New

Bug description:
  nova-compute memory grows to 3gb in a Scaled environment (5000 vm)
  where continuous VM operations were executed for 72 hours.

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  22181 nova      20   0 3325m 3.0g 6588 R 34.2 19.0   3984:23 nova-compute

  
  To test the memory leak we created and deleted same number of vms for some iterations. Here is the data .

  VM Count	Memory (KB )
  0	                 516528
  20	                 518520
  40	                 518520
  60	                 522192
  80	                 524068
  100	                 526904
  0	                 526904
  20	                 526904
  40	                 526904
  60	                 526904
  80	                 526904
  100	                 529372
  0	                 530972
  20	                 530972
  40	                 530972
  60	                 530972
  80	                 530972
  100	                 533484
  0	                 533484
  20	                 533484
  40	                 533484
  60	                 533484
  80	                 533484
  100	                 535112
  0	                 535112

  
  When analysed with objgraph, it showed that suds library objects occupied most of the memory.

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