From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rek2 Subject: Memory under KVM? Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:43:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4B22BCE5.7040208@binaryfreedom.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.binaryfreedom.info ([216.75.30.35]:55868 "EHLO libre.binaryfreedom.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759275AbZLKVwQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:52:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by libre.binaryfreedom.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0BA26EE0E for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from libre.binaryfreedom.info ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (libre.binaryfreedom.info [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id BNlrr5a9LLFw for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from cf817.mgh.harvard.edu (rtp000894rts.mgh.harvard.edu [132.183.4.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by libre.binaryfreedom.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B38F0173496 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:12 -0500 (EST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi everyone, I'm new to the list and I have a couple questions that we are wondering about here at work... we have notice that the KVM processes on the host take much more memory than the memory we have told the VM to use.. a ruff example.. if we tell KVM to use 2 gigs for one VM it will end up showing on the host process list for that VM like 3 gigs or more... Why do I ask this? well we need to figure out how much memory to add to our host server so we can calculate the number of VM's we can run there etc etc.. Thanks for the help