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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Petersson <jonathan.petersson@op5.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAM utilization issues
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:51:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0EBB2F.3050206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKM0yO8S824Kyz0X3zG0bszfOCQLHev2shYngfVkVWd3iT+LYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/12/2012 12:47 PM, Jonathan Petersson wrote:
> > What's the aggregate size of the guests (sum of all guest memory
> > sizes)?  How many guests?  Are you in fact using the balloon?  How?
> >
> > --
> > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
> >
>
> This is a sample from one of the servers:
>
> Aggregate size is 28672 MB wheras 20133 is utilized on the host.
> Looking at each induvidual VM the actual utilization is rarely above
> 20% i.e. ~ 6GB.
> On this particular host there's a total of 23 VMs.
> Each VM is started with -balloon virtio, the host and the guests has
> the virtio_balloon drivers loaded.

Loading the balloon drivers does nothing.  The management agent must
actively inflate or deflate he balloon.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-12 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12  9:27 RAM utilization issues Jonathan Petersson
2012-01-12 10:36 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-12 10:47   ` Jonathan Petersson
2012-01-12 10:51     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-01-12 12:56       ` Jonathan Petersson
2012-01-12 13:41         ` Avi Kivity

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