[Users] save to restart libvirtd ?

[Martin Kletzander]

On 04/16/2013 12:21 AM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
> Thanks Martin,
> 
> I tested on a "almost" empty host I had to play with, and it seemed all
> went well, so will hopefully be able to regain ~11 GB of memory after
> restarting libvirtd :) ..
> 
> I'll sign up to the other mailing list to find out why / how it could
> have grown this big :\
> 

There might be some memleaks, especially in older version.  For this
kind of stuff, I'd maybe use the libvir-list [1]

Martin

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

> Thanks
> Alex
> 
> 
> On 04/15/2013 04:12 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On 04/15/2013 03:39 PM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I believe it's save, but just wanted to re-check, is it save to restart
>>> libvirtd on a HV running ~40 VMs ?
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for libvirt questions, I'd rather use libvirt-users at redhat.com, but for
>> this particular one, I can confirm that libvirt is written in a way that
>> enables it to be restarted without any impact on the machines which are
>> being ran.
>>
>> Of course I can't say "nothing will happen" due to the fact that every
>> single time something can happen, but nothing _should_ happen to any of
>> your machines.
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>> Martin
>