From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory under KVM?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B28AFC0.8080708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912160258.43761.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
On 12/16/2009 11:58 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>
>> It depends on what your expectations are. If you have a lot of memory
>> you might be surprised when you access an idle guest and have to wait
>> for it to page itself back from disk.
>>
>>
> Why would it be swaping in that case? Only unused/free/cache memory should
> be returned to the host
Right, it would return cache memory, and when you use the guest next
time, it will have to refill its cache.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-16 10:00 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
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 [this message]
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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