It seams that our provider hasn't built a management engine for ballooning, however I found this project (https://github.com/aglitke/mom) which is compatible with libvirt however as the mangement-engine we use doesn't utilize libvirt it's not compatible, would you happen to know of a different project that utilizes qemu-socket. Thanks On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/12/2012 12:47 PM, Jonathan Petersson wrote: >> > What's the aggregate size of the guests (sum of all guest memory >> > sizes)? How many guests? Are you in fact using the balloon? How? >> > >> > -- >> > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function >> > >> >> This is a sample from one of the servers: >> >> Aggregate size is 28672 MB wheras 20133 is utilized on the host. >> Looking at each induvidual VM the actual utilization is rarely above >> 20% i.e. ~ 6GB. >> On this particular host there's a total of 23 VMs. >> Each VM is started with -balloon virtio, the host and the guests has >> the virtio_balloon drivers loaded. > > Loading the balloon drivers does nothing. The management agent must > actively inflate or deflate he balloon. > > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function > -- Jonathan Petersson - Operations Engineer op5 AB Norgegatan 2 SE-164 32 Kista, Sweden Direct +46 8-58 83 01 21 Mob +46 733709021 E-mail: jpetersson@xxxxxxx www.op5.com -- 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