On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:14:47PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo and /proc/zoneinfo when > > > this is happening. > > > > I just noticed that the amount of RAM the VMs had in VIRT added up > > to considerably more than the host's actual RAM; hard_limit is now > > on. So I may not be able to replicate this. :) > > Or not; even with hard_limit the VIRT value goes to hundreds of MiB > more than the limit. Is that expected? Yes, VIRT field refers to total memory mapped by the process, not paged-in memory, which is indicated by the RES field. -- 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