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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RAM overcomittment
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:21:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609272321.43534.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FBE19388-C29F-4DB3-AEDB-6CC38186FA5F@gmail.com>

> > However, swapping (using virtual memory) will be a huge performance
> > killer. It will affect the performance of your host OS and all
> > applications, as well as for your QEMU instances.
>
> The problem is the swaping even the VM don't need all of ressource
> assigned... We lost RAM...

You need to fix your host OS then. If the guest isn't using the memory it 
shouldn't be swapped in.

Paul

      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-27 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27 21:31 [Qemu-devel] RAM overcomittment The MoonSeeker
2006-09-27 21:41 ` Paul Brook
2006-09-27 21:59   ` The MoonSeeker
2006-09-27 22:19     ` Paul Brook
2006-09-27 22:53       ` The MoonSeeker
2006-09-27 22:58         ` Paul Brook
2006-09-27 23:12           ` [Qemu-devel] PowerPC Decrementer Clock Rate Ely Soto
2006-09-27 22:36     ` [Qemu-devel] RAM overcomittment andrzej zaborowski
2006-09-28 14:45     ` James Oakley
2006-09-28 22:29       ` Bill C. Riemers
2006-09-27 21:57 ` James Olsen
2006-09-27 22:16   ` The MoonSeeker
2006-09-27 22:21     ` Paul Brook [this message]

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