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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: In kvm, a single process cannot allocate more than 3.6GB ram.
 Why?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:04:32 +0200
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On 12/12/2009 12:11 PM, Tanel Kokk wrote:
>
> [root@lu2-kvm-db1 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:       10267308 kB
> MemFree:          228944 kB
> Buffers:           19680 kB
> Cached:          6069524 kB
> SwapCached:            0 kB
> Active:          8175200 kB
> Inactive:        1374884 kB
> Active(anon):    3238044 kB
> Inactive(anon):   544104 kB
> Active(file):    4937156 kB
> Inactive(file):   830780 kB
> Unevictable:           0 kB
> Mlocked:               0 kB
> SwapTotal:             0 kB
> SwapFree:              0 kB
> Dirty:             15968 kB
> Writeback:             0 kB
> AnonPages:       3461108 kB
> Mapped:           327816 kB
> Slab:             171452 kB
> SReclaimable:     121756 kB
> SUnreclaim:        49696 kB
> PageTables:       244268 kB
> NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
> Bounce:                0 kB
> WritebackTmp:          0 kB
> CommitLimit:     8727208 kB
> Committed_AS:    6056168 kB
> VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
> VmallocUsed:       38180 kB
> VmallocChunk:   34359645255 kB
> DirectMap4k:        4032 kB
> DirectMap2M:    10481664 kB
>    

What guest kernel is this?  What's the value of the guest's 
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory?

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