On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 4:54:07 PM UTC+3, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2016-06-18 14:01, Jane Jok wrote: > > Hello! I'm new to Qubes, but I did a fair stab at reading the docs > > and googling for stuff about firewall-vm > > > > My question is thus: is it normal for Firewall VM consume 1.5-1.8 > > GB RAM (after clean install, this is my first startup) ? > > > > is there a way to reduce RAM consumption? (I have just 4 GB ram on > > this box, and spending 1.5 GB on nothing but a firewall is a bit... > > unpleasant) > > > > You're probably just seeing the Qubes memory manager (qmemman) in > action. It automatically distributes all available memory across all > currently running VMs (including dom0). This is intended behavior. If > you start another VM or run a program in a VM that requires more > memory, it will dynamically adjust and reallocate the memory as > needed. It's recommended to let qmemman handle this rather than trying > to manipulate memory allocation manually. > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > Community Manager, Qubes OS > https://www.qubes-os.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXZqP4AAoJENtN07w5UDAwTHYP/1YYu1uK42EFtW9oNO0SPM55 > VH7Lx/b/vjnZvMH/xKjg48dzXNLPS85e4LFud6TqVv+L6EDhtgalCRq0fHzc2Wre > cByMD8qYVq+biJ2XXqX20s6l9WoO7QJvBIxr02aIE8HLe6CCSpV3s/uFIWQcUI5C > beWzcTMnJQxcYRwSQzPydYQ/RJ6DNlOHlgllZyt5OHjD61OiMDniCnxFQJnVxEli > XZuJF4/Pxc+D0ZTWBwM5vkzBEwApgN7v7BKHSu3ODeVxMiQHAWicPP0TmMcFD9fL > XdNrRUlwK7/l+XLB3I7ldtQa/RFk5dMQr5YddCIL1kZ8uMKezEsTFePARvFiSxXl > 9BWW2HW8kXeRbSswZ+CExJPpYGOto3h45LtHd19nzss9GnCxcPpTPV6JgPx1LOVc > fj4USVMGohs4oU1e3CdO5UsrDre3cub5JX5WTNxhSTwh8jkxN6RT3dnh/oOicZ9i > lHphMkUvDJ5uMgBvmDB15jMw3PjwTHq9mPLbuUKvT8IE6faZlx1LXJyJR+E3y/zW > IIR2t63tPtmuhwVw5SPttDTu3Nj/a2xKkrvas4noSvZNfF0RaZ0tBOclK0WPRR+X > LB0lf349jMAscXMJNpX5dnTnCzo7Ja3O9JYKPSaz4vR1CPoVU7h+54jOF/zXlhx9 > 0wGc9R+Ovy060AqDdPzA > =Paja > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Thank you Andrew! It looks like it was indeed a memory balancing thing, so no reason for concern, I guess.
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