Hi, Rik. On Monday, 02 August 2010 15:31:47 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: >>>>> I have an installation with Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.4 amd64 with >>>>> qemu-kvm 0.12.3 compiled with the source code obtained from the >>>>> official site of KVM and Linux 2.6.32.12 compiled from source code >>>>> of kernel.org. All this is installed on an HP Proliant DL380 G6 >>>>> with two Xeon E5530 quadcore processors and 16 GiB of RAM which >>>>> has two VMs with the following configuration of memory: >>>>> >>>>> Hostname | RAM >>>>> ===============+=============== >>>>> Aps4 | 7 GiB >>>>> Leela | 7 GiB >>>>> ===============+=============== >>>>> TOTAL | 14 GiB >>>>> >>>>> Initially the host was created with a swap partition of 1 GiB, but >>>>> today we found that the use of swap quickly began to grow >>>>> increasingly. Therefore, as a contingency, we had to hot-add a >>>>> logical volume of 1 GB of swap on the VMHost. Is 'normal' this use >>>>> of memory? >>> That depends on what is going on in the host. >>> >>> Did you notice any performance issues in the guest when you started >>> using swap? >> After the logical volume of 1 GB that I added when I found this >> problem (being the operating system with 2 GB), I added other 3 GB to >> have a little more margin, but today I got again a new alert of >> Nagios: >> >> >> Swap usage WARNING [...] SWAP WARNING - 30% free (1490 MB out of 5052 MB) >> >> >> I don't see performance issue in the VMs. >> >> Marcelo Tosatti recommended me to apply the EPT patch >> (6316e1c8c6af6ccb55ff8564231710660608f46c). Should it be safe for use in >> production? Are there plans that this patch is applied on some version >> of Linux stable? > Yes, that patch is safe and definitely recommended. Perfect. Thanks for so fast answer. And there are some estimates of when this patch is in Linux stable? Regards, Daniel -- Mi frase del día: BOFH excuse #281: The co-locator cannot verify the frame-relay gateway to the ISDN server. Daniel Bareiro - GNU/Linux registered user #188.598 Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux with uptime: 16:44:53 up 23 days, 21:37, 11 users, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.08
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