From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: dbareiro@gmx.net, KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very high memory usage with KVM
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:11:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6C721F.8030702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090726145603.GD31411@defiant.freesoftware.org>
On 07/26/2009 05:56 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>
>> What is the storage configuration? Are you using qcow2?
>>
>
> I'm not using qcow2 files. The /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 partition is a physical
> volume that maintains the logical volumes that are used for VM's disks:
>
>
In this case there should be no excessive memory usage. qcow2 could use
extra memory, especially on older qemu-kvm versions (or images created
with older qemu-img versions).
>> What is the host kernel (uname -a)?
>>
>
> root@ss02:~# uname -a
> Linux ss02 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 18:43:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
kvm memory management with pre 2.6.27 host kernels is pretty weak.
Using a newer host kernel (and newer kvm) may solve this problem.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 17:43 Very high memory usage with KVM Daniel Bareiro
2009-07-26 11:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-26 14:56 ` Daniel Bareiro
2009-07-26 15:11 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-26 15:50 ` Daniel Bareiro
2009-07-26 16:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-08 0:54 ` Daniel Bareiro
2009-08-09 9:12 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-10 6:40 ` Bernhard Held
2009-08-10 15:22 ` Daniel Bareiro
2009-08-10 16:15 ` Bernhard Held
2009-08-22 2:28 ` Daniel Bareiro
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