I created a new VM today and it ran for a while before mysteriously 
disappearing.  I logged in to the node it was running on to take a look at the 
logs and it looks as though the VM was shut down because the node ran out of 
memory.  This particular node has 8GB in it and was running 4 VMs (including 
the crashed one).  The memory assigned to each VM was 4G, 1.5G, 512M, 256M.  It 
was the 256M VM that was started last and that's the one that was shutdown.  
What are the memory requirements of the host OS?

Another thing I've noticed on the node is that as the memory usage increases a 
lot of processor time is spent running ksmd.  Presumably it's spending time 
reclaiming memory from buffers and cache.  Aren't buffers generally used for 
disk buffering?  Does the host OS need to do this given the guest OS will also 
be buffering the disks?

Cheers,
Justin.
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