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On Monday, March 29th, 2021 at 15:37, Leandro Roggerone
<lean...@tecnetmza.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi guys , thanks for your words , have some feedback:
>
> Maybe Proxmox cannot look inside the VM for the actual memory usage because
>
> the VirtIO balloon driver is not installed or active? Or maybe the other
>
> 90% is in use as Windows file cache?
>
> I think so ...
>
> Dont know about windows file cache ...
>
> Have you installed the VirtIO drivers for Windows? Are you assigning too
>
> many vCPUs or memory? Can you share the VM configuration file? Can you tell
>
> us something about your Proxmox hardware and version?
>
> No , I have not ... now you mentioned im reading about VirtIO , I will try
>
> to install and let you know how it goes
>
> Should install it no my pve box or directly inside windows vm ?
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> I'm assigning max vCPUs abailables (24 , 4 sockets 6 cores) and 32gb for
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> memory.
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> (I really don't know about any criteria to assign vcpus)
>
> This is VM config file:
>
> root@pve:~# cat /etc/pve/nodes/pve/qemu-server/107.conf
>
> bootdisk: ide0
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> cores: 6
>
> ide0: local-lvm:vm-107-disk-0,size=150G
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> ide1: local-lvm:vm-107-disk-1,size=350G
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> ide2:
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> local:iso/Windows_Server_2016_Datacenter_EVAL_en-us_14393_refresh.ISO,media=cdrom,size=6808810K
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> memory: 32768
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> name: KAIKENII
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> net0: e1000=1A:F1:10:BF:92:0A,bridge=vmbr3,firewall=1
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> numa: 0
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> ostype: win10
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> scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
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> smbios1: uuid=daf8f767-59c7-4e87-b3be-75d4a8020c38
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> sockets: 4
>
> vmgenid: a7634624-1230-4a3e-9e7c-255d32ad2030
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> My PVE is:
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> CPU(s) 24 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5680 @ 3.33GHz (2 Sockets)
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> Kernel Version Linux 5.0.15-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.0.15-1 (Wed, 03 Jul 2019
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> 10:51:57 +0200)
>
> PVE Manager Version pve-manager/6.0-4/2a719255
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> Total Mem = 64GB.
>
> That's all.
>
> Thanks
You are using emulated IDE drives, which is very slow. Please install the
VirtIO SCSI driver for Windows inside the VM and attach the disk with (vitual)
scsi instead of ide. You might need to reinstall Windows to make it boot. Use
the VirtIO virtual floppy to install the VirtIO SCSI driver when starting the
Windows installation setup inside the VM.
Use as little virtual cores and as little memory as is needed (or just a little
more), this makes the VM run more smoothly. You systems has two sockets, so you
might want to enable NUMA in the VM configuration, otherwise your VM memory
access has to go to the other socket often, which is slow. Using just the cores
from one of your CPU's (or less) will perform better than using all for the
same reason of less communication between physical sockets.
Currently, you have chosen all the slowest options to run this VM on your kind
of system. Each of the steps above will increase performance. The VirtIO driver
installation is the most work, but also gives the most performance increase.
Selecting 'host' instead of kvm64 will also improve performance.
kind regards, Arjen
> El vie, 26 mar 2021 a las 11:40, Arjen via pve-user (<
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> pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>) escribió:
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> > From: Arjen leeste...@protonmail.ch
> >
> > To: Proxmox VE user list pve-user@lists.proxmox.com
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> > Cc:
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> > Bcc:
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:39:13 +0000
> >
> > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Windows sever 2016 vm with very high ram usage
> >
> > On Friday, March 26th, 2021 at 15:28, Leandro Roggerone <
> >
> > lean...@tecnetmza.com.ar> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys , Just wanted to share this with you.
> >
> > > After creating a VM for a windows sever 2016 with 32 GB ram I can
> >
> > > see continuos high memory usage (about 99-100%).
> >
> > > I have no running task , since it is a fresh server and from task manager
> >
> > > can see a 10% of memory usage.
> >
> > > Regarding those confusing differences, server performance is very bad.
> >
> > Maybe Proxmox cannot look inside the VM for the actual memory usage
> >
> > because the VirtIO balloon driver is not installed or active? Or maybe the
> >
> > other 90% is in use as Windows file cache?
> >
> > > User experience is very poor with a non fluent user interface.
> >
> > > Is there something to do / check to improve this ?
> >
> > Have you installed the VirtIO drivers for Windows? Are you assigning too
> >
> > many vCPUs or memory? Can you share the VM configuration file? Can you tell
> >
> > us something about your Proxmox hardware and version?
> >
> > > Any advice would be welcome.
> >
> > Maybe search the forum for similar Windows performance questions?
> >
> > https://forum.proxmox.com/forums/proxmox-ve-installation-and-configuration.16/
> >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > best of luck, Arjen
> >
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> > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:39:13 +0000
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> > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Windows sever 2016 vm with very high ram usage
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