<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Yes, I am using KVM, indeed. But let me set this straight, the programme "lookbusy" that I am using, utilizes the VMs completely (the whole 2GB) and when I e.g. look at the memory usage inside the VM (via top, or free) it shows that the whole 2GB are used. However, the physical machine doesn't show the same data, but in fact find its equilibrium at about 500MB.</div><div>Did you mean that?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Von:</span></b> Steven Timm <timm@fnal.gov><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">An:</span></b> Adnan Pasic <pqado@yahoo.de> <br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Cc:</span></b> "users@lists.opennebula.org" <users@lists.opennebula.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gesendet:</span></b> 16:08 Mittwoch, 23.November 2011<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Betreff:</span></b> Re: [one-users] A question about the utilization of VMs<br> </font> <br>What hypervisor are you using? If you are using KVM then this<br>behavior is normal, KVM only actually occupies the amount of RAM<br>that the virtual machine is actually using at the time and<br>OpenNebula reports the usage accordingly. this makes it possible<br>to overbook and put 16 2-GB KVM VM's on a machine that has less physical<br>RAM than that.<br><br>Steve Timm<br><br><br>On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Adnan Pasic wrote:<br><br>> Hello guys,<br>I have a<br>problem with understand one specific behaviour and I hope that this community<br>might help me with it.<br>Anyway, I<br>am writing my diploma thesis using OpenNebula and so far it has
done everything<br>I imagined and wanted it to do. I deploy VMs and utilize every one of them with<br>the tool ˙˙lookbusy˙˙. On normal physical hosts, lookbusy works perfectly,<br>utilizing the CPU/Memory as I set it and doesn˙˙t stop the utilization until the<br>whole process is killed.<br>When I<br>utilize my VM, however, I noticed the VMs being utilized for approx. 2 minutes,<br>but afterwards I can see a falling trend of utilized memory on the physical<br>host. For instance, I utilize the memory of the VM by 2 GB ˙˙ thus, the physical<br>host shows the same utilization too. Nevertheless, after 2 minutes, the<br>utilization on the physical host starts decreasing and stops at about 500MB of<br>utilized memory, although the VM shows the whole time a full utilization of 2GB<br>!<br>Do you know<br>what could be the reason? Maybe it has something to do with the scheduler, or I<br>don˙˙t know?<br>Please help<br>me with this, as this is a crucial
part of my diploma thesis and I got stuck!!!<br> <br>Thanks in<br>advance.<br>Regards,<br>Adnan<br><br>-- ------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525<br><a ymailto="mailto:timm@fnal.gov" href="mailto:timm@fnal.gov">timm@fnal.gov</a> <a href="http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/" target="_blank">http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/</a><br>Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities,<br>Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader.<br>Lead of FermiCloud project.<br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>