Cannot set up guest memory 'ram-node0 on system with 64GB ram free

abkrim

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I've a Proxmox system with Virtual Environment 5.2-10 with problem for start a new machine with 16GB ram-

Code:
kvm: -object memory-backend-ram,id=ram-node0,size=8192M: cannot set up guest memory 'ram-node0': Cannot allocate memory

After read message, I've investigated.

On Proxmox interface y show more that 64GB ram free. (see imagen below)

But on TOP on shell,

```
KiB Mem : 13191718+total, 1591924 free, 63599436 used, 66725824 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free, 0 used. 955824 avail Mem
```

Conf machine.
```
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 1
cpu: kvm64,flags=+pcid
cpuunits: 1500
ide2: templates:iso/ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso,media=cdrom
memory: 4096
name: myname.com
net0: virtio=A6:32:07:3B:EF:82,bridge=vmbr2
numa: 1
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=51e52931-8a39-4251-ae32-855b6e9427f7
sockets: 1
virtio0: pve:vm-429-disk-0,size=10G
vmgenid: a989340b-2e2f-4453-b62f-3bcebf5cb69c
```

```
pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 96004.48
REGEX/SECOND: 2961050
HD SIZE: 19.10 GB (/dev/nvme1n1p2)
BUFFERED READS: 400.03 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 0.03 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 11849.91
DNS EXT: 10.54 ms
DNS INT: 3.30 ms (tamainut.net)
```
 

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