Re: Memory problems
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:47:06PM +0200, Jonatan Soto wrote:
> I fact I am setting this VM's for production and staging purposes. ESXi
> allows to create resources pools so it's possible to prioritize the usage of
> resources and that fits my needs very well.
>
> So I believe you noticed that is a very large amount of RAM (I have only 4
> physical GB) for too less daemons and you are right, but with the advantages
> I explained before allows me to play fine with the memory I've defined at
> present. In near future I will install more software on each server, like
> databases, JVM's, etc. so the system will be fully loaded for sure. That's
> why I've got alarmed when I saw the memory consumptions for each server.
>
> I am totally conscious that I should upgrade RAM before I publish the
> server.
Since you are running ESXi, it is actually quite possible for it to
tell the guest (through the balloon driver) to give back some memory,
which will show in the guest as used memory.
Check the vmware memory statistics and see if it has done that to
the guests.
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Len Sorensen
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