Memory usage node incorrect?

[flob]

Hello everyone,

I just installed Proxmox VE 7.2 2 days ago and created 1 VM with 4GB of memory and 1 container with 245MB and somehow, for some reason, Proxmox's memory in usage is showing 10GB. How is that possible? I am new to Proxmox as I switched over from ESXi and would love to know if I am doing something wrong or missing something.



The VM has QEMU guest agent enabled as shown below.




Would anyone be so kind in assisting what could be wrong here? I know 16GB in total is not much to start with, but I was expecting something amongst 5GB of usage as I know that Proxmox itself needs some memory to use aswell, but was not expecting 10GB.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dunuin]

PVE needs 2GB and cache modes of guests like writeback needs space too. Any maybe use use ZFS? ZFS will by default use up to 50% of your RAM for its ARC for caching.

 

[flob]

PVE needs 2GB and cache modes of guests like writeback needs space too. Any maybe use use ZFS? ZFS will by default use up to 50% of your RAM for its ARC for caching.

It seems that the 2TB storage disk that I needed to make available in Proxmox has been created as ZFS. I am new to Proxmox so I just followed some video on how to do this. I guess if I wanted to change this, my VM needs to be removed? That would be a bummer as I use it for work.

 

[Dunuin]

You could backup your VM externally, format that HDD with something else and restore the VM from backup.