[ovirt-users] Memory and swap issue

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/05/2014 02:24 AM, Jeff Clay wrote:
> I'm getting the following error trying to start a VM. I have 64 gb of
> RAM on this host. I got this error once before and found that my swap
> partition was only 2gb or so. I increased the swap size to 124GB and the
> problem went away. Below is the error when trying to start a VM and
> below that is what my output from "free -g". I don't see why I'm getting
> a swap file error when there's plenty of it available.
>
>
>   * Cannot run VM. Host swap percentage is above the defined threshold.
>     - Check your configuration parameters for Host Swap Percentage.
>   * Cannot run VM. There is no host that satisfies current scheduling
>     constraints. See below for details:
>   * The host USARPAOVRTHOST02 did not satisfy internal filter Memory.
>
>
>
> [root at usarpaovrthost02 ~]# free -g
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:            62         62          0          0          0         12
> -/+ buffers/cache:         50         12
> Swap:          123         12        110
> [root at usarpaovrthost02 ~]#
> [root at usarpaovrthost02 ~]#
> [root at usarpaovrthost02 ~]# swapon -s
> Filename                                Type            Size    Used
> Priority
> /dev/dm-1                               partition       129490936
> 12811000        -1
> [root at usarpaovrthost02 ~]#
>
>
>
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what do you see under host general subtab for swap percentage?