> Do You see similar results at Your side? > > Best regards
Would you mind to share you argument set to an emulator? As far as I understood you are using plain ballooning with most results from above for which those numbers are expected. The case with 5+gig memory consumption for deflated 1G guest looks like a bug with mixed dimm/balloon configuration if you are tried against latest qemu, so please describe a setup a bit more verbosely too.