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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Kamble,
	Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: real mode emulation and memory consumption
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:33:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474D0BAB.3070808@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE0DC-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>  I am noticing that with SL 10.1 The QEMU process memory consumption
> steadily increases, up the the guest memory size and then the guest dies
> with unhandled vmexit. If I change the guest memory size I can see the
> qemu process dies accordingly, after reaching the size of allotted guest
> memory.
>   Does this hint you to any issues?
>
>   

Are you talking about RSS?  That's normal behavior (except for the 
untimely death).  kvm allocates memory on demand, like regular Linux 
processes.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10 13:53 OpenSolaris 09/2007 (Sun Solaris Express) magicboiz
2007-11-27  1:31 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2007-11-27  8:07   ` magicboiz
2007-11-27 20:22     ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]       ` <474C7CA1.1040604-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-27 23:14         ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2007-11-28  1:04         ` real mode emulation and memory consumption Kamble, Nitin A
     [not found]           ` <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE0DC-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28  6:33             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]               ` <474D0BAB.3070808-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 18:54                 ` Kamble, Nitin A
     [not found]                   ` <5461330FA59EDB46BE9AB8AAF2C431AD05DCE70B-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-30  7:20                     ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-28  1:12       ` Kamble, Nitin A

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