memory consumption

Good day everyone. I am recording a big discrepancy of memory usage on my Ubuntu VM. Here is what htop shows as usage: While PVE console shows this: Memory allocation options: What's wrong? Thank you all, A.

Hi, Proxmox was showing high memory usage with only one OS running (Cockpit which has only 1GB of memory allocated). So I turned it off and with no VM running still had 18GB of memory usage. Whereas in the htop the used memory is around 3GB and 18GB in Proxmox summary (After turning off one VM...

Hey, been working on setting up a new PVE lab at home for multiple use cases incl. finally getting off my Windows Plex Server setup. I have my initial basic cluster up and running with two nodes (one more to come soon) and been testing all sorts of LXC's and VM's to ensure I understand all I am...

Hello, Ever since I've cloned my old PBS's SSD to a new one and moved it to newer hardware, I've noticed that "used" RAM (putting aside ARC) is significantly greater than what it should be when adding up that which the processes use. root@pbs-0:~# ps aux | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB\t\t"...

Hello All, i'm running into a weird issue with one of my VM's. The VM is configured for 450gb of memory, it set to ballooning. I have 3 VM's that are configured exactly the same VM and OS wise, but this one when it starts up provisions all 450gb of ram during startup. this makes startup take...

We have a couple of pretty beefy VM hosts running the latest VE and have on one host a fairly beefy VM because it is running a Mastodon server with 200 active accounts on it. However, the displayed memory usage in the Proxmox VE dashboard for this VM always shows 97% and higher memory...

Hi! I'm using Proxmox 8.2.2, and I would like to know why Proxmox shows that a VM is using 6.67GB of 8GB of RAM from "outside": But, from "inside", htop gives me this: In other words: How Proxmox effectively measures memory usage in VMs? Thanks. Regards.

Hello, I'm fairly new to proxmox and running into some trouble with backups. I configured a VM backup job writing to an NFS share with mostly default options (Snapshot, ZSTD compression). Within a minute or two of starting, the system and all VM's became unresponsive. After rebooting I tried...

Hi, just installed NixOS in a VM with GPU passthrough. Everything seems to be working fine, but the RAM usage being reported from the Proxmox dashboard seems very high. Specially compared to what the VM is reporting... I have another VM booted with the ISO for NixOS and it shows far less...

Hi, I have a mv with windows 2022 in pve 7.3-3, a week ago I added a 1TB disk, but the operating system eats all the RAM, when entering the OS I identified that what is eating the memory is a process that tries to deframe the disk I have been adding to the RAM but it always has the same...

Hello There, lately, I have configured a 2 node proxmox cluster (Raspberry Pi as q device) each node runs couple of lxc containers however the memory utilization on node 2 is drastically high. any idea how to get and fix that high memory utilization top command from node

Hello forum, I have setup a ZFS RAID1 proxmox instance with two HDD each 1TB. I have created two Ubuntu VMs (2GB RAM and 4GB RAM). The nvme (256Gb) is not in usage. The problem is that it takes too much memory for these VMs to run. What is the correct way in order for proxmox to not use that...

Hi everyone, I am hurting for memory at the moment and I need a temporary fix until my Epyc parts arrive in December. I posted a question regarding ZFS memory usage and you guys pointed me to the right place to change how much memory the host system uses for ZFS. I have that ZFS volume shared to...

Hello, server with 32GB of memory and made 16GB available for the VM. But in the web interface it shows the graph with memory above 80%. Can someone explain to me why this is happening?

Hi all, I have been trying to find information about this, but so far I have not been able to find an answer that explains my question. I will try to explain it as detailed as possible. AT this moment I have Proxmox running with a machine with 64 GB of RAM, the total assigned RAM is 52. When...

Hi i have proxmox node and one of vm using more ram than alloted i have allot 10gb ram but in htop process show more when i stop and start machine show accurate but after few days again show more ram usage

Hi I run a small one man business (developer) and use Proxmox to virtualise my customer Windows installations. This works perfectly - I currently have 4 Windows machines running - each with 16 GB of ram and 8 vCPU cores. My host has 64 GB of memory and a 32 x AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor...

Hi I have install proxmox on a Dell T1700 that have 16 GB memory. I have also install Windows that have 4 GB and Home Assistant that have 2 GB memory So my VM use 6 GB memory but when I look at summary of my proxmox server it say RAM usage 92.08% (14.31 GiB of 15.54 GiB) So does...

This morning one of our proxmox servers completely crashed and took down the VM with it. The server was still on and I was able to connect to is via console. The error was 'Out of memory'. I've also seen this proxmox server over a few weeks suck the CPUs completely dry (this server is only...

Can anyone clarify the procedure to set the memory limit for ZFS...? This is the link to the instructions below: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#sysadmin_zfs_limit_memory_usage The procedure to make the change on temporary basis works perfectly and also as stated in the...