Re: maybe a virtio-balloon-device issue ?

2015-02-19 Thread Mario Smarduch
I've been testing the patch few days, the bolloon OOM notifier patch seems to do a good jobs freeing memory before OOM killer is about to kill a process. Although on few ocassions it wasn't enough. But if you're memory target is anywhere within some range of freeram, and it's hard to say how much

Re: maybe a virtio-balloon-device issue ?

2015-02-09 Thread Mario Smarduch
Thanks for the pointer I'll try it out. - mario On 02/06/2015 07:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 06/02/2015 02:18, Mario Smarduch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking into qemu/balloon driver VM overcommit. I noticed >> virtio-balloon driver will take any setting from virtio-balloon-device >> t

Re: maybe a virtio-balloon-device issue ?

2015-02-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/02/2015 02:18, Mario Smarduch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into qemu/balloon driver VM overcommit. I noticed > virtio-balloon driver will take any setting from virtio-balloon-device > to the point Guest dies. > > For a 1G guest > $ sudo echo balloon 100 | socat - tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:44

maybe a virtio-balloon-device issue ?

2015-02-05 Thread Mario Smarduch
Hi, I'm looking into qemu/balloon driver VM overcommit. I noticed virtio-balloon driver will take any setting from virtio-balloon-device to the point Guest dies. For a 1G guest $ sudo echo balloon 100 | socat - tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1: you get (same with libvirt setmem) root@localhost:~# fre