VirtualBox

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#16753 new defect

Pen_Tablet.exe takes more and more memory when VM is on.

Reported by: snow Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 5.1.22
Keywords: wacom memory leak Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

Tablet is Wacom CTL-470.
Driver version 5.3.5-3 (newest for this tablet).
Memory leak occurs on host while VM is running and tablet is connected. Process name is Pen_Tablet.exe (Tablet service for consumer driver). The process gains around 20K memory every second.
Host is running Windows 10 build 15063.250 (Creators update).
Guest is Arch Linux.

Attachments (2)

arch-2017-05-12-19-24-52.log (81.0 KB ) - added by snow 8 years ago.
wacom_memory_leak
threads.PNG (50.4 KB ) - added by snow 8 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by snow, 8 years ago

wacom_memory_leak

by snow, 8 years ago

Attachment: threads.PNG added

comment:1 by snow, 8 years ago

If this helps i found out that when the process keeps consuming more memory it's creating endless number of threads as seen in the attachment.

Last edited 8 years ago by snow (previous) (diff)

comment:2 by snow, 8 years ago

Update, the tablet doesn't need to be connected.

comment:3 by Mihai Hanor, 7 years ago

Duplicate of #14272

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