From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:24:34 +0100 Message-ID: <56D9B6C2.3070708@redhat.com> References: <1457001868-15949-1-git-send-email-liang.z.li@intel.com> <20160303174615.GF2115@work-vm> <20160304081411.GD9100@rkaganb.sw.ru> <20160304102346.GB2479@rkaganb.sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , "ehabkost@redhat.com" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "mst@redhat.com" , "quintela@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "amit.shah@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "rth@twiddle.net" To: "Li, Liang Z" , Roman Kagan Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33576 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751415AbcCDQYm (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:24:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/03/2016 15:26, Li, Liang Z wrote: >> > >> > The memory usage will keep increasing due to ever growing caches, etc, so >> > you'll be left with very little free memory fairly soon. >> > > I don't think so. > Roman is right. For example, here I am looking at a 64 GB (physical) machine which was booted about 30 minutes ago, and which is running disk-heavy workloads (installing VMs). Since I have started writing this email (2 minutes?), the amount of free memory has already gone down from 37 GB to 33 GB. I expect that by the time I have finished running the workload, in two hours, it will not have any free memory. Paolo