On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote: > > I fact I am setting this VM's for production and staging purposes. ESXi > > allows to create resources pools so it's possible to prioritize the usage > of > > resources and that fits my needs very well. > > > > So I believe you noticed that is a very large amount of RAM (I have only > 4 > > physical GB) for too less daemons and you are right, but with the > advantages > > I explained before allows me to play fine with the memory I've defined at > > present. In near future I will install more software on each server, like > > databases, JVM's, etc. so the system will be fully loaded for sure. > That's > > why I've got alarmed when I saw the memory consumptions for each server. > > > > I am totally conscious that I should upgrade RAM before I publish the > > server. > > Since you are running ESXi, it is actually quite possible for it to > tell the guest (through the balloon driver) to give back some memory, > which will show in the guest as used memory. > > Sorry Lennart, I don't get your point. Perhaps is because I am using the free version of ESXi and this option is not available. > Check the vmware memory statistics and see if it has done that to > the guests. > I checked it out yesterday and I found a more 'realistic' memory usage than the shown with top or free. I would like to post links containing the exported images of the charts but I don't know why some fields (the important ones) are not shown. I must go to the traditional way, printScreen + gimp...I also can post memory usage data exported in excel format if it is the interest of somebody. I will do it ASAP. Well, I'm actually a bit confused here. I don't know in what direction should I go, I mean if I should investigate further and try to find an explanation for this or reinstall everything using a backported kernel or continuing the installation of the services and let's see what happens. Note that I am running out of time that's why I tried the official stable release because I thougth it will be pretty straightforward. For now I am thinking to reboot every server, except Server4 which is running correctly (at least the memory usage showed seems reasonable to me), and then observe how they behave. Thanks a lot for your help. > > -- > Len Sorensen >
