On 22/07/2013 10:46, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 22/07/13 14:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 22/07/2013 00:19, William Kenworthy wrote: >>> swap: this will make one of the bigger speedups to the system when you >>> need swap. swap is good - yes you can do without it, but the day comes >>> when you REALLY do want it, and ... [crash!] ... otherwise it can just >>> sit there waiting :) >>> >>> /etc/sysctl.conf: >>> >>> #vm.swappiness=1 >>> #vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 >>> >> >> Do those settings set on the host or on the guest? >> >> >> > Host ... they are applied via "pressure" on the guest memory via the > balloon driver. The couple of windows images seem to create problems > for the linux images in that linux seems to work better together but > with windows hogging the memory (worst case is a win7 and win8 running > concurrently, nether play well.) Have not looked further than reducing > the memory allocated to windows (which triggered a genuine windows check > on win7!) so they co-exist "uneasily" > > BillK > > >
thanks -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
