On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:40:49AM -0700, Jim Sibley wrote:
> With 1 Gig of real memory and 512 MB per guest, you're probably measuring
> the VM paging subsystem or some other overhead phenonmena, which is
> probably tunable, not the Linux guest.  - with 10x512 MB guest to 1 GB real
> memory, you may be overcommited by more than 5 to 1 because VM chews up a
> good bit of that memory too! The miracle would probaly be to do something
> like add more memory.

Sorry, but I fail to understand this epxlanation.

Does the VM always swap-out complete guests?

Because in this case the code and data involved in the calculation (for
some 14 minutes or so) were located in a very small number of pages.

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