memory consumption

  1. J

    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...
  2. H

    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...
  3. R

    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...
  4. powersupport

    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...
  5. J

    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...