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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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  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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