memory consumption

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    proxmox server completely crashed with out of memory error

    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...
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    Limiting ZFS Memory

    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...
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    High memory usage without any VM's Running

    Hello there! Recent changes: i have recently migrated my boot device on my proxmox server to two Seagate Iron Wolf M.2 SSD's - which are running in a raid1 configuration for failover. After setting up proxmox i started migrating all my VM's to it, thats where i noticed something weird. Proxmox...
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    Summary Mem Usage Does Not Match OS Free

    Hello, This is my first post and not sure I'm posting in the right place. I only see "Proxmox VE: Installation and configuration" and "Networking and Firewall". I created a VM w/ 2GB of RAM. The VM Summary shows the VM memory is close to being maxed but the OS free -h says it's no where...
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    Memory Usage not same as in VM

    Hello, My summary of virtual machine Memeory Usage is not correct by all linux servers. For my windows vm's i have installed the virtio drivers en the guest agent en they memory usage is perfect the same as in task manager. Only how do i set this in debian and centos servers? I have installed...
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    Proxmox node high memory usage but seems incorrect

    Our proxmox VE single node with ZFS (2x 4TB HDD) is showing very high memory usage. However, I have already limited the usage to "8GB" for ARC. Inside VM, when the memory usage is only 2-3 GB, the VM status on PVE is also showing correct values. However, PVE Node shows very high memory usage...
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    Proxmox 6.x consumes more memory than assigned using ZFS

    After being faced a few times with extraordinary memory consumption i took a look at the shell using glances. out of principle i never count on swap space and don't configure it since my use cases don't call for it. While the RAM assigned is correctly estimated proxmox/kvm decided to consume...