On Mon December 14 2009, rek2 wrote: > > VIRT includes a lot of shared memory, so it's not a very useful number > > to look at when trying to gauge how much memory a process is using. > > Ok, so then what stats should we look to calculate the amount of memory > a server should have depending on how many guests we will like to use? > > Thanks again > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
If you want to be extra careful, you'll want to get as much ram as you need for all the guests, and the host, and probably leave a little free for the host to use as a disk cache. At least with the kvm setup I have, there is no way to overcommit memory, other than to use the hosts swap. Things are pretty tight memory wise for me, I'm hoping KSM in 2.6.32 will help alleviate matters some what. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@shaw.ca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
