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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 13:32:17 +0200
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On 12/13/2009 01:30 PM, Tanel Kokk wrote:
>
>> What guest kernel is this?  What's the value of the guest's
>> /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory?
>>
>>      
> [root@lu2-kvm-db1 ~]# uname -a
> Linux lu2-kvm-db1 2.6.30.7 #1 SMP Mon Sep 21 17:39:41 UTC 2009 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> [root@lu2-kvm-db1 ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> 2
>
>
>    

Ah.  Set it to zero or add some swap.

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