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On 22/07/2013 10:46, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 22/07/13 14:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 22/07/2013 00:19, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> swap: this will make one of the bigger speedups to the system when you |
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>>> need swap. swap is good - yes you can do without it, but the day comes |
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>>> when you REALLY do want it, and ... [crash!] ... otherwise it can just |
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>>> sit there waiting :) |
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>>> /etc/sysctl.conf: |
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>>> #vm.swappiness=1 |
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>>> #vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 |
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>>> |
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>> Do those settings set on the host or on the guest? |
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> Host ... they are applied via "pressure" on the guest memory via the |
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> balloon driver. The couple of windows images seem to create problems |
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> for the linux images in that linux seems to work better together but |
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> with windows hogging the memory (worst case is a win7 and win8 running |
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> concurrently, nether play well.) Have not looked further than reducing |
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> the memory allocated to windows (which triggered a genuine windows check |
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> on win7!) so they co-exist "uneasily" |
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> BillK |
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thanks |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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