From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Swap usage with KVM (and KSM) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:42:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4C77C0DA.2020406@redhat.com> References: <20100711151257.GA13279@defiant.freesoftware> <20100711191227.GD9267@defiant.freesoftware> <4C3A3C77.2010408@redhat.com> <20100802185705.GJ21963@defiant.freesoftware> <4C571D23.3040802@redhat.com> <20100802195257.GL21963@defiant.freesoftware> <4C5728F6.3070703@redhat.com> <20100827100434.GA12203@defiant.freesoftware> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dbareiro@gmx.net, KVM General , "hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6923 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753301Ab0H0Nm7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:42:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100827100434.GA12203@defiant.freesoftware> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/27/2010 06:04 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > In the previous case the ratio would be 52/16 = 3.25. In my case the > VMHost has 4 GB of RAM, so the ratio would be 10.75/4 = 2.6875. In RH > tests do not talk about the amount of swap used in that case, so I > wonder if a distribution of VMs as I have, it is normal to use 290 MB of > swap. Given that you have 10.75GB worth of virtual machine on a system with 4GB of RAM, I'd say that 290MB of swap is not out of the ordinary. -- All rights reversed