From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: James Stevens <James.Stevens@jrcs.co.uk>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM and the OOM-Killer
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:42:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100513134216.GA9284@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BEBF2F8.7020507@redhat.com>
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 03:39:20PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/13/2010 03:20 PM, James Stevens wrote:
> >
> >General advice seems to be, if you have more than 16Gb RAM then
> >you should run the VM host 64bit.
> >
> >We didn't see this issue on a server with 32Gb running the same
> >set of VMs.
> >
>
> I'd go with 64-bit at 2GB and above. It's both faster and safer.
There's an interesting posting from Linus which explains details:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=78966&threadid=78766&roomid=2
HTH,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-13 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 12:20 KVM and the OOM-Killer James Stevens
2010-05-13 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 13:39 ` James Stevens
2010-05-13 13:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-13 18:55 ` David S. Ahern
2010-05-13 13:42 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2010-05-14 7:33 ` Athanasius
2010-05-14 8:10 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 8:21 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 8:43 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 12:28 ` Balbir Singh
2010-05-14 13:01 ` James Stevens
2010-05-14 8:19 ` Balbir Singh
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