From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: In kvm, a single process cannot allocate more than 3.6GB ram. Why? Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4B220ADF.6030709@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48223 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755900AbZLKKBd (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:33 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NJ2GD-0006NS-II for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:58:05 +0100 Received: from 80-219-101-10.dclient.hispeed.ch ([80.219.101.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:58:05 +0100 Received: from thomas by 80-219-101-10.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:58:05 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:03:27 +0200 schrieb Tanel Kokk: > Does anybody have a glue why process are not able to allocate more than > 3.6GB memory ? > > What should i do to allow process allocate more than 3.6GB memory? Is it > possible at all? > just some thoughts: * is qemu/kvm 64bit? * check "ulimit -a" on console if a process is limited on memory usage (config file /etc/security/limits.conf) - Thomas