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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar-GhD4xmeTzCPby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Guest memory usage
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:36:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A8907B.7040206@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E88155B5BD67CE4D87A3F1F70950B96A1AFF63-Mtm3uwm0nrWenyD9vqZGNUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>

Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Is there a monitor command to query the guest memory usage?
>
> Using Host VSZ/RSS gives wrong values - looks like allocated pages get
> never free?
>   

The VSZ/RSS is correct.  What you're seeing is probably a mix of two 
things.  In the absence of MMU notifiers, not all memory is reclaimable 
all the time.  Second, reducing the RSS size and free()'ing in the guest 
are not related operations.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> - Dietmar
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 13:23 Guest memory usage Dietmar Maurer
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2008-02-05 16:36   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
     [not found]     ` <47A8907B.7040206-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-06  5:10       ` Dietmar Maurer
     [not found]         ` <E88155B5BD67CE4D87A3F1F70950B96A1AFF69-Mtm3uwm0nrWenyD9vqZGNUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-06 19:44           ` Anthony Liguori

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