[Qemu-devel] Fwd: [Users] oVirt Node (HyperVisor) - Memory Usage

[Alex Leonhardt]

Hi All,

Please could you see below post(s) to the oVirt users list regarding a possible issue with memory usage by VMs running on qemu kvm ?

Thanks!
Alex


Versions:

libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.7.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.7.x86_64
libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.10-21.el6_3.7.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.9.10-21.el6_3.7.x86_64

qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.8.x86_64
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.9.el6.noarch
qemu-img-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.8.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-tools-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.8.x86_64

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Kenigsberg <address@hidden>
Date: 15 January 2013 09:48
Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt Node (HyperVisor) - Memory Usage
To: Alex Leonhardt <address@hidden>
Cc: Doron Fediuck <address@hidden>, Ronen Hod <address@hidden>, oVirt Mailing List <address@hidden>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:02:10AM +0000, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
> Here you go : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895448

I am not suggesting that 1GB qemu overhead is not interesting, but I do
not think this list is the best place to find the answer. I suggest that
you specify the libvirt and qemu versions, and take the question - and
the bug - to address@hidden.

>
> Ta!
> Alex
>
>
> On 15 January 2013 08:54, Alex Leonhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Sure no prob - will do ..
> >
> >
> > On 15 January 2013 07:17, Doron Fediuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alex,
> >> Interesting, we'll need to look into it.
> >> Do you mind opening a BZ? I'll see that it's routed to the relevant
> >> people.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Doron
> >>
> >>

> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> *From: *"Alex Leonhardt" <address@hidden>
> >> *To: *"Doron Fediuck" <address@hidden>
> >> *Cc: *"oVirt Mailing List" <address@hidden>
> >> *Sent: *Monday, January 14, 2013 7:41:40 PM
> >> *Subject: *Re: [Users] oVirt Node (HyperVisor) - Memory Usage

> >>
> >>
> >> qemu     24233 11.0 1.0 *3030420* 1008484 ?     Sl    2012 2189:02
> >> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.3.0 -cpu Conroe -enable-kvm *-m
> >> 2048*-smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -name
> >>
> >> above example shows ~3 Gig VSZ but only 2048m are actually configured ...
> >>
> >> if i'm not too blind and dumb :) ... 3030420 kb = 2959.39 mb ... and
> >> that's not what is configured as the VMs max allowed ram ...
> >>
> >> Alex

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