On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Roshan George <ros...@arjie.com> wrote: > Just thought I'd bring closure to this thread. While the RAM usage > wouldn't show up under Buffers/Cache, it did drop to expected use as > soon as I required the extra RAM (by mallocing up a few megabytes). > > I assume this is how this hypervisor (the vmware one, I think) works.
On most servers designed for virtualization, the cost of RAM is often 50% of the entire hardware cost. Therefore hypervisors employ plenty of techniques to use RAM efficiently, and you may be observing the effects of some of these features on your VM. VMWare ESX memory management details: http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10129 - Raja _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
