From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1absWz-0008FU-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:24:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1absWw-0008UJ-Mm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:24:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1absWw-0008UE-Gt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:24:42 -0500 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> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <56D9B6C2.3070708@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:24:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Li, Liang Z" , Roman Kagan Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "quintela@redhat.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "mst@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "amit.shah@redhat.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "rth@twiddle.net" 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