Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios: can't start as many kvm's as I thought due to memory pressure

2017-03-09 Thread pieter van puymbroeck
Will try it tonight or tomorrow and provide feedback. Thanks for the tip. P. Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 9 mrt. 2017 om 09:55 heeft Jan Vlach het volgende > geschreven: > > Hi Pieter, > > Can you make your swapfile 96G or larger? > > If I recall correctly, KVM needs

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios: can't start as many kvm's as I thought due to memory pressure

2017-03-09 Thread Jan Vlach
Hi Pieter, Can you make your swapfile 96G or larger? If I recall correctly, KVM needs all it's RAM backed up by swap, because of fragmentation and other reasons. Jan On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:34:11AM +, pieter van puymbroeck wrote: > Hello Jan, > > $ swap -sh

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios: can't start as many kvm's as I thought due to memory pressure

2017-03-08 Thread pieter van puymbroeck
Hello Jan, $ swap -sh total: 52G allocated + 100M reserved = 53G used, 8.8G available $ This is when 7 machines are running. I face the issue when starting the 8th one. Br Pieter Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 8 mrt. 2017 om 22:29 heeft Jan Vlach

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios: can't start as many kvm's as I thought due to memory pressure

2017-03-08 Thread Jan Vlach
Hi Pieter, how much disk space do you have allocated for swap? Jan On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 07:32:23PM +, pieter van puymbroeck wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to start 12 kvm machines in my global zone and I end up in an memlock > issue after the 6th machine: > > > qemu_mlock: have only