From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rek2 Subject: Re: Memory under KVM? Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:06:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4B25656D.3010700@binaryfreedom.info> References: <4B22BCE5.7040208@binaryfreedom.info> <200912130941.47737.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <4B254D45.40600@binaryfreedom.info> <200912131442.18067.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Return-path: Received: from mail.binaryfreedom.info ([216.75.30.35]:49962 "EHLO libre.binaryfreedom.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754445AbZLMWGj (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:06:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200912131442.18067.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/13/09 4:42 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On Sun December 13 2009, rek2 wrote: > >> Hi Thanks for the responses, but look: >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin >> /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -m 1024 -smp 1 -name vm_hsci -uuid >> 52ed4c7c-65e4-325e-0f96-87a5be6d854c -monitor >> unix:/var/run/libvirt/qemu/vm_hsci.monitor,server,nowait -boot c -drive >> file=/var/kvm_images/vm_hsci.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -net >> nic,macaddr=00:16:36:5b:c4:e2,vlan=0,name=nic.0 -net >> tap,fd=16,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc >> 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us -vga cirrus -soundhw es1370 >> >> I have -m 1ith 1024 right? >> but if I do a top: >> 1214m 364m 3360 S 0 4.5 46:55.24 kvm >> >> so is clearly above -m >> what could be the issue? >> Thanks >> > VIRT includes a lot of shared memory, so it's not a very useful number to > look at when trying to gauge how much memory a process is using. > Ok, so then what stats should we look to calculate the amount of memory a server should have depending on how many guest VM's we will like to use? Thanks again