Warren Young wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Because of caching, from VMWare's perspective, all Linux memory is
>> being "used”.
>
> Nope. VMware’s memory ballooning feature purposely keeps some of the
> guest’s RAM locked away from the kernel. This is where RAM comes from
> when another guest needs more physical RAM than it currently has access
> to:
>
> https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2008/10/memory-overcomm.html
>
> There are downsides.
<snip>
> Another, of course, is that oversubscription risks running out of RAM, if
> all of the guests decide to try and use all the RAM the host told them it
> gave. All of the guests end up being forced to deflate their balloons
> until there is no more balloon memory left.
<snip>
Note that in '09, VMWare was advising us (where I was working at the time)
to not go over 2 or 2.5 times real memory....
mark
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