more than 8192 MB of Memory for a container?

[Timo]

Hi all!

We need to guarantee one of our OpvenVZ containers up to 30 GB of Ram. When I tried to set this value in the configuration dialog of the web interface I get a error:

"Error: Memory needs to be less than 8192 MB"

Why is the containers memory limited to 8192 MB? Is this a common limit for OpenVZ containers?

Server: 128GB of Ram, 64 bit installation.

 

[dietmar]

Do you use the latest version?

 

[Timo]

Yes, I am using the latest version of proxmox. I installed it about two weeks ago.

uname -a

Linux hostname 2.6.24-2-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 14 11:32:49 CET 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

vzctl version 3.0.23-1pve1

 

[dietmar]

The latest version does not have such limit.

Whats the output of

# pveversion -v

 

[Timo]

myhostname:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.1-3 (pve-manager/1.1/3718)
qemu-server: 1.0-10
pve-kernel: 2.6.24-5
pve-kvm: 83-1
pve-firmware: 1
vncterm: 0.9-1
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve1
vzdump: 1.1-1
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1dso1

 

[dietmar]

wget ftp://pve.proxmox.com/debian/dists/etch/pvetest/binary-amd64/pve-manager_1.1-4_all.deb
dpkg -i pve-manager_1.1-4_all.deb

Please can you test that.

 

[Timo]

With the pvemanager of your last post I am able to commit more than 8192 MB to a virtual machine.

Thank you for fixing this. What was the problem? Something related to openvz or a constraint for this value checked by the web interface?

 

[dietmar]

Thank you for fixing this. What was the problem? Something related to openvz or a constraint for this value checked by the web interface?

Some time ago I though it would not make sense to assign that much memory to one VM - but things changed. Now, you can buy Hosts with 256GB RAM

- Dietmar