Windows VM using a lot of RAM

lps90

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Hi

I installed several Windows VM's in two different dedicated machines using Proxmox 8.
When i start the VM's, they use a lot ram.
Seems to be a general problem, that's why i tested in different dedicated servers.
I followed this tutorial: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2022_guest_best_practices
The options i'm using:
Ballooning (Minimum ram: 1000mb Maximum ram: 64GB)
Cpu = Host
SeaBios + pc-i440-fx-8.0
I need to restart the VM's several times so it uses the normal ram.

Any solution?

System: Proxmox 8 (latest version)
VM's system: Windows 10
 
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What is "normal RAM" for you? Windows needs A LOT of RAM with nothing installed. The ballooning range you use is gigantous ... why???
 
What is "normal RAM" for you? Windows needs A LOT of RAM with nothing installed. The ballooning range you use is gigantous ... why???

Because the game servers i host need a lot of ram, that's why 64GB (50% of the dedicated server ram).
 
windows reserve all memory from hypervisor at boot. (filling all memory pages).

You can't do nothing about that.

ksm will deduplicate 0 pages when you'll reach 80%. (or ballonning can also reduce && freeup this memory)
 
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