id = 2841
title = "QEMU is increasing memory swap, the only solution is to reboot after a freeze."
state = "opened"
created_at = "2025-02-25T10:34:29.424Z"
closed_at = "n/a"
labels = []
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2841"
host-os = "n/a"
host-arch = "n/a"
qemu-version = "n/a"
guest-os = "MacOS"
guest-arch = "Intel (x86_64)"
description = """Swap starts increasing suddenly and gets to around  60GB before laptop freezes and “dies”."""
reproduce = """Seemingly random, didn’t notice any pattern.. it just started happening more often.

![image__2_](/uploads/70d007253835b2dafe17352f8facf0f8/image__2_.png)

![image__4_](/uploads/0cde47d15ec6f988a0aa46dd4af3f799/im

![image__3_](/uploads/f88a567693807d046e048ac6b3deab5a/image__3_.png)age__4_.png)"""
additional = "n/a"