How Proxmox measures memory usage in VMs?

Zamana

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Dec 20, 2015
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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":

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But, from "inside", htop gives me this:

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In other words: How Proxmox effectively measures memory usage in VMs?

Thanks.
Regards.
 
Hello KevinS.

Thanks for replying. I should have looked before posting.

Thank you very much.
 

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