From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Kamble,
Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: real mode emulation and memory consumption
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:33:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474D0BAB.3070808@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE0DC-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> Hi Avi,
> I am noticing that with SL 10.1 The QEMU process memory consumption
> steadily increases, up the the guest memory size and then the guest dies
> with unhandled vmexit. If I change the guest memory size I can see the
> qemu process dies accordingly, after reaching the size of allotted guest
> memory.
> Does this hint you to any issues?
>
>
Are you talking about RSS? That's normal behavior (except for the
untimely death). kvm allocates memory on demand, like regular Linux
processes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 13:53 OpenSolaris 09/2007 (Sun Solaris Express) magicboiz
2007-11-27 1:31 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2007-11-27 8:07 ` magicboiz
2007-11-27 20:22 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <474C7CA1.1040604-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-27 23:14 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2007-11-28 1:04 ` real mode emulation and memory consumption Kamble, Nitin A
[not found] ` <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE0DC-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 6:33 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
[not found] ` <474D0BAB.3070808-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 18:54 ` Kamble, Nitin A
[not found] ` <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE70B-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-30 7:20 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-28 1:12 ` Kamble, Nitin A
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