[Solved] Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory leak?

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Re: Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory leak?

Post by Perryg »

Odd I don't see host IO enabled by default on sata installs ( also the default ). They stopped that some time back because of the issue mentioned in your post.
Did you manually enable it?
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Re: Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory leak?

Post by motorious »

I don't think so... I'll check when I get home tonight.
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Re: Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory leak?

Post by motorious »

Update:

Just went through all my VMs and they're all using SATA controllers with Host I/O un-checked.
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Re: Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory leak?

Post by motorious »

Update 2: Turned out to be a Hard Drive failing and all those bad sectors the guests were trying to write to must have been filling up my memory buffers. Thanks Perry and Marvin for the great support. I owe you both several beers :D

This can be marked solved...not sure how to do that on my end.
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Re: [Solved] Debian Jessie x86_64 Host Vbox 4.3.28 memory le

Post by noteirak »

By editing your first post and setting the title accordingly, which I have done :)
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