Izik Eidus wrote: > this patchs allow the guest not shadowed memory to be swapped out. > > to make it the must effective you should run -kvm-shadow-memory 1 (witch > will make your machine slow) > with -kvm-shadow-memory 1, 3giga memory guest can get to be just 32mb > on physical host! > > when not using -kvm-shadow-memory, i saw 4100mb machine getting to as > low as 168mb on the physical host (not as bad as i thought it would be, > and surely not as bad as it can be with 41mb of shadow pages :)) >
So what exactly does this option do? Is it really worth exposing it as an option if it slows down guests so much? At least, a better name for the option would be nice. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
