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Why does host swap out VMs when there are 16GB of buffer cache and swappiness = 0? [duplicate]
I have a desktop running Ubuntu Quantal using OpenStack Folsom on an Intel i5 with 32 GB RAM and 2 GB swap. I'm running 7 VMs each sized like a EC2 m1.small, so 1.7 GB RAM each. I'm using KVM.
As I ...
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Should I use swap in KVM guest?
Now I'm trying to create KVM templates with CentOS and I'm not sure should I create swap partition on guest OS or not. In future it will be lot's of small VPS with 256-1024Mb RAM and if swap partition ...
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Why is my KVM, RHEL6.2 server swapping?
I have a RHEL6.2 server that I'm using to run KVM virtual machines.
The server itself has 16 GB of RAM. I want to see the biggest VM I can run on it and not let the qemu-kvm process swap. The VM ...
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How much swap space for a 32GB ubuntu virtualization server?
I looked at many other questions on here regarding swap space, but none that I found really addressed my particular situation.
I have an Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit server with 32GB of RAM running as a KVM ...
