Subject: Re: [vserver] number of vserver guests
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:40:37 -0500

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 19:56 +0000, ben@bristolwireless.net wrote:
> Quoting "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>:
> 
> 
> > That's interesting.  I'd like to pursue this a bit, if I may because
> > that's what I originally expected in VServer but I don't think it is
> > what I am seeing.  For example, we are running many vservers with KDE
> > desktops.  I was expecting that since they are all looking at the same
> > hardlinked X and KDE files,memory usage would be minimal.  However, we
> > see each vserver consuming between 500MB and 1GB of RAM (from
> > vserver-stat).
> >
> > Our observation is only that; we are not yet at the point in the project
> > where we are analyzing where all the memory is going but we would have
> > expected one instance of 500MB to 1GB and the rest only holding user
> > data.  Again, no need to spend a lot of time on it as we have not yet
> > done our homework but any initial thoughts? Thanks - John
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Did you restart the guests after hashifying?
> 
> ==
>  From Ben Green
Yes, we've been tracking it for about a year - John