David Marx wrote:
>>>
>>> quick question: When the RAM is shared with multiple OS instances
>>> (virtual machines),
>>> is 1/4 of all available memory a reasonable limit?
>>> Should this be 1/4 of RAM available to the domain (host or guest) ?
>
> Like the resources project.max-crypto-memory and
> project.max-shm-memory, project.max-device-locked-memory
> is based on the kernel variable availrmem_initial.
> Therefore, I suspect that this is 1/4 of the memory available
> to the guest.
what about dom0 ? Assuming all RAM is seen as available to dom0,
locking 1/4 of it
is probably excessive.
I'm not sure much can be done for such situation, other than a word of
caution in the man page
documenting project.max-device-locked-memory, for the case of xVM.
Kais
