On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:07:10 +0200 Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> we have used KSM in production for about half year and the numbers that > came from our QA is: > using KSM for desktop (KSM was tested just for windows desktop workload) > you can run as many as > 52 windows xp with 1 giga ram each on server with just 16giga ram. (this > is more than 300% overcommit) > the reason is that most of the kernel/dlls of this guests is shared and > in addition we are sharing the windows zero > (windows keep making all its free memory as zero, so every time windows > release memory we take the page back to the host) > there is slide that give this numbers you can find at: > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KvmForum2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kdf2008_3.pdf > > (slide 27) > beside more i gave presentation about ksm that can be found at: > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/KvmForum2008?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kdf2008_12.pdf OK, 300% isn't chicken feed. It is quite important that information such as this be prepared, added to the patch changelogs and maintained. For a start, without this basic information, there is no reason for anyone to look at any of the code! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
