[SOLVED] High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm (PROXMOX BUG)

[setrox]

SOLVED : This is bug. If you use soundcard in vps conf. VPS is using high memory.

Hello

i have a big problem and i cant found any solution. please help me.
i have 10 vps in my dedi. 7 vps already started and i dont have any problem (6 vps win2003 + 1 vps centos)
i have another two xp vps and one w2008 vps in this dedi.if i run this vps example one XP starting, vps usage memory give high virt and res usage in shell. i put this picture. why?

This is correct ram usage

root@:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         32162       4085      28077          0        200        886
-/+ buffers/cache:       2998      29164
Swap:         2022        171       1851

root@:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       32934472 kB
MemFree:        28751740 kB
Buffers:          205152 kB
Cached:           907400 kB
SwapCached:       114448 kB
MemCommitted:    2097152 kB
VirtualSwap:       45792 kB
Active:          2671984 kB
Inactive:         958640 kB
Active(anon):    2189524 kB
Inactive(anon):   383736 kB
Active(file):     482460 kB
Inactive(file):   574904 kB
Unevictable:       61024 kB
Mlocked:           61024 kB
SwapTotal:       2071544 kB
SwapFree:        1895472 kB
Dirty:               208 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:       2442488 kB
Mapped:            79016 kB
Shmem:             47708 kB
Slab:             297488 kB
SReclaimable:      91016 kB
SUnreclaim:       206472 kB
KernelStack:        2880 kB
PageTables:        36616 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    18538780 kB
Committed_AS:   12588072 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      357096 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359232264 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:        7680 kB
DirectMap2M:    33538048 kB

root@:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.2-132 (running kernel: 2.6.32-31-pve)
pve-manager: 3.2-4 (running version: 3.2-4/e24a91c1)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-30-pve: 2.6.32-130
pve-kernel-2.6.32-29-pve: 2.6.32-126
pve-kernel-2.6.32-31-pve: 2.6.32-132
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.5-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.5-1
pve-cluster: 3.0-12
qemu-server: 3.1-16
pve-firmware: 1.1-3
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-18
libpve-access-control: 3.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-19
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-6
vzctl: 4.0-1pve5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.7-8
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.4.2-1

One XP vps is starting now and memory usage is very high.

root@:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         32162      13051      19110          0        204        891
-/+ buffers/cache:      11956      20206
Swap:         2022        171       1851

root@:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       32934472 kB
MemFree:        18932848 kB
Buffers:          209056 kB
Cached:           912784 kB
SwapCached:       114436 kB
MemCommitted:    2097152 kB
VirtualSwap:       45760 kB
Active:         12449928 kB
Inactive:         969648 kB
Active(anon):   11965248 kB
Inactive(anon):   387696 kB
Active(file):     484680 kB
Inactive(file):   581952 kB
Unevictable:       61024 kB
Mlocked:           61024 kB
SwapTotal:       2071544 kB
SwapFree:        1895484 kB
Dirty:               280 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:      12221876 kB
Mapped:            79664 kB
Shmem:             47732 kB
Slab:             299352 kB
SReclaimable:      91384 kB
SUnreclaim:       207968 kB
KernelStack:        2928 kB
PageTables:        59092 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    18538780 kB
Committed_AS:   23906052 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      361552 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359232264 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:        7680 kB
DirectMap2M:    33538048 kB

only two xp and one win2008 vps give this problem. i tested one by one. why? ballons memory driver installed all windows.

Please help me

 

[setrox]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

please help me.

 

[Mr.Holmes]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

Hello setrox,

how much memory did you define for the VM? Min/max or just fixed size?

Kind regrads

Mr.Holmes

 

[setrox]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

i try fixed 2gb and 512mb 2gb min/max.

 

[acidrop]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

Can you try without virtio?

 

[setrox]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

i only use IDE disk and 2gb fixed and i see this problem again. ram usage very high 10-11GB page memory cache or something i dont know.

 

[Mr.Holmes]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

Hello setrox

i only use IDE disk and 2gb fixed and i see this problem again. ram usage very high 10-11GB page memory cache or something i dont know.

I also can imagine that´s something with caching - what happens if start more machines, do you run in trouble because of lack of resources? If not - don´t worry

In principle I observed something similar in case of windows: process kvm uses much more memory that assigned to guest as seen in the "Summary" graphs (in my case the difference is 1GB). Moreover I saw that the windows graphical adapter consumes a lot.

But these are just observations - maybe somebody has a deeper knowledge how kvm works ....

All the best

Mr.Holmes

 

[setrox]

Re: High Virt and Res Usage in proxmox kvm

Hello setrox



I also can imagine that´s something with caching - what happens if start more machines, do you run in trouble because of lack of resources? If not - don´t worry

In principle I observed something similar in case of windows: process kvm uses much more memory that assigned to guest as seen in the "Summary" graphs (in my case the difference is 1GB). Moreover I saw that the windows graphical adapter consumes a lot.

But these are just observations - maybe somebody has a deeper knowledge how kvm works ....

All the best

Mr.Holmes

i found my problem. This is a bug. i need sound card in xp. if i use

args: -device AC97,addr=0x18

or

args: -device intel-hda,id=sound5,bus=pci.0,addr=0x18 -device hda-micro,id=sound5-codec0,bus=sound5.0,cad=0 -device hda-duplex,id=sound5-codec1,bus=sound5.0,cad=1

vps using high memory. i removed this in conf file. This problem gone.

Thanks