<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/10/17 Alan Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@datdec.com" target="_blank">alan@datdec.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Mathok <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathok1@googlemail.com" target="_blank">mathok1@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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<div><div>Same here with ovirt 3.1.0-2 i can't see a change in the UI. But i'm able to start more VMs and hava a higher usag of my swap partiotion so i think the change had the desired effect</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Oh, does this take advantage of host swap space as well? I thought I had read oVirt could do that somewhere, but I have been reading about so many different virtualization systems over the last few months that when the <a href="https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1-Beta/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html" target="_blank">RHEV 3.1 Admin Guide</a> did not mention swap space in section "4.2.2.2. Memory Optimization Settings Explained", I was not sure if it applied here. This is all it says at the moment:</div>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>"Memory page sharing allows virtual machines to use up to 200% of their
allocated memory by utilizing unused memory in other virtual machines.
This process is based on the assumption that the virtual machines in
your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment will not all be
running at full capacity at the same time, allowing unused memory to be
temporarily allocated to a particular virtual machine."</div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Do you have a reference handy that confirms and explains this? I put some speedy SSDs in my hosts to hopefully take advantage of this (and maybe run gluster), so I am hoping to see that in print somewhere. I'll dig it up if you don't have it handy, but a confirmation that this is your experience and understanding would make me feel better in the mean time.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>let me explain my (now fixed) problem i have a ovirt host with 8 GB Ram
and 12 VMs every with 256 MB Physical Memory Guarantee. When i start my
two mysql-cluster vms they will use the 256 PMG plus 3,75 GB MS they
have defined a max of 4 GB MS. At this poitn now the problem begins the
mysql taken the hole memory in both vms and now there is no more free
ram at the host and it is not possible to start more vms. <br><br>(this is also speculation im not a expert) So i
need for my understanding a higher rate of memory overcommit to be able
to start all vms, and for that the host must use the swap to have enough
memory for overcomit to start all vms and yes the higher the rate, the worse the
performance. I'm not sure if this is the right or good way tho fix this problem<br><br>(sorry for my bad english I hope this is understandable) <br></div></div><br>