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I wanna ask about RAM in VPS [message #9401] Sun, 31 December 2006 04:18 Go to next message
tamtam is currently offline  tamtam
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I am using OpenVZ. Can anybody tell me the way to recognise how many physical RAM a specific VPS can be allocate to use maximum and how many physical RAM a specific VPS used

Regards,
Thanx
Re: I wanna ask about RAM in VPS [message #9402 is a reply to message #9401] Sun, 31 December 2006 04:47 Go to previous message
rickb is currently offline  rickb
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Hello, and welcome to the forum.

In the VE, there is no accurate concept of physical ram vs. swap ram. Its just "memory"; the HN takes care of keeping rapidly accessed memory in RAM and other in swap. I'll add a bit more to this at the end. Knowing that basic fact, here are the answers to your question.

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how much physical RAM a specific VPS can allocate

privvmpages barrier

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how much physical RAM a specific VPS is using

physpages held

Both metrics are rated in pages, which is 4K bytes on 32bit and 16k bytes on 64bit architectures.


privvmpages, vmguarpages, oomguarpages are memory metrics which you set per VE. Suprisingly to most new admins, this can be set to an arbitrary value. If your HN has 1GB of ram and 1GB of swap, you can still set the above metrics to 10GB for example. This isn't a "healthy" configuration, but its worth pointing out that nothing will stop you.

Hope this helps!
Rick Blundell


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