From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: rek2 <rek2@binaryfreedom.info>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory under KVM?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:09:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B234FB7.8010804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B22BCE5.7040208@binaryfreedom.info>
On 12/11/2009 11:43 PM, rek2 wrote:
> 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..
Can you give an example? A snapshot from 'top' would do.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-12 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 21:43 Memory under KVM? rek2
2009-12-11 22:54 ` Brian Jackson
2009-12-12 8:09 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-12 20:37 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-13 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-13 16:41 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-13 16:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-13 17:16 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-15 10:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-15 23:21 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-16 9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-16 9:58 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-16 10:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-16 10:09 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-13 20:23 ` rek2
2009-12-13 21:42 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-13 22:06 ` rek2
2009-12-14 15:50 ` rek2
2009-12-14 19:57 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-12-15 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
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2009-12-10 22:10 Christian Fernandez
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