On Friday 11 December 2009 15:43:01 rek2 wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm new to the list and I have a couple questions that we > are wondering about here at work... > we have notice that the KVM processes on the host take much more memory > than the memory we have told the VM to use.. a ruff example.. > if we tell KVM to use 2 gigs for one VM it will end up showing on the > host process list for that VM like 3 gigs or more... > Why do I ask this? well we need to figure out how much memory to add to > our host server so we can calculate the number of VM's we can run there > etc etc.. > > Thanks for the help > My guests' RES size are all either right at or below what the -m parameter is set to. So I think you have some sort of issue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html