From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Memory under KVM? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4B28AFC0.8080708@redhat.com> References: <4B22BCE5.7040208@binaryfreedom.info> <200912151621.19082.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <4B28AE8D.6080600@redhat.com> <200912160258.43761.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 To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14014 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758904AbZLPKAe (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200912160258.43761.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/16/2009 11:58 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > >> It depends on what your expectations are. If you have a lot of memory >> you might be surprised when you access an idle guest and have to wait >> for it to page itself back from disk. >> >> > Why would it be swaping in that case? Only unused/free/cache memory should > be returned to the host Right, it would return cache memory, and when you use the guest next time, it will have to refill its cache. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function