[PVE-User] Question about memory management

[Hart, Brian R.]

Ah, sorry!  I had seen that page but managed to overlook the portion at
the top about the mixed setup.  Thanks!


Brian Hart
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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Maurer <martin at proxmox.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:57:27 +0000
To: "pve-user at pve.proxmox.com" <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Question about memory management

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
>> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Hart, Brian R.
>> Sent: Freitag, 03. Juni 2011 21:48
>> To: pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
>> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Question about memory management
>> 
>> This email thread got me interested in KSM as I did not know that it
>>existed
>> prior to this and I discovered that in order to use it you must use
>>kernel 2.6.35
>> which doesn't have openvz support.  My question is, In a PVE Cluster,
>>is it
>> possible to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.35 to get the KSM support on some
>> nodes but keep some nodes at the 2.6.32 level in order to run OpenVZ?
>[Martin Maurer] 
>
>Yes, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Kernel
>Br, martin
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Brian Hart
>> Systems Administration Specialist
>> University of Oklahoma
>> Center for Spatial Analysis
>> Two Partners Place
>> 3100 Monitor, Suite 180
>> Norman, OK 73072
>> Office: (405)325-9611
>> Mobile: (405)397-2133
>> http://csa.ou.edu/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frederic MASSOT <frederic at juliana-multimedia.com>
>> Organization: JULIANA Multimedia
>> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:08:52 +0200
>> To: <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Question about memory management
>> 
>> >Le 02/06/2011 09:56, Martin Maurer a écrit :
>> >> Use KSM.
>> >>
>> >> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/KSM
>> >> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KSM
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >About KSM and ksmtuned daemon, the installation script
>> >(/var/lib/dpkg/info/ksm-control-daemon.postinst) specifies the defaults
>> >runlevel 2345 (update-rc.d ksmtuned defaults 21), but in the header of
>> >the startup script (/etc/init.d/ksmtuned) runlevel 2 is forgotten :
>> >
>> ># chkconfig: 345 85 15
>> ># description: The KSM tuning daemon controls whether ...
>> ># processname: ksmtuned
>> ># config: /etc/ksmtuned.conf
>> ># pidfile: /var/run/ksmtuned.pid
>> >#
>> >### BEGIN INIT INFO
>> ># Provides: ksmtuned
>> ># Required-Start:
>> ># Required-Stop:
>> ># Should-Start:
>> ># Default-Start: 3 4 5
>> ># Default-Stop: 0 1 6
>> >
>> >
>> >Most of the Debian system operates a level 2, in this case during the
>> >package installation runlevel 2 is not taken into account and ksmtuned
>> >is not running.
>> >
>> >$ sudo update-rc.d ksmtuned defaults 21
>> >update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
>> >update-rc.d: warning: ksmtuned start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do
>> >not match LSB Default-Start values (3 4 5)
>> >
>> >Tested with sysv-rc 2.88dsf-13.1
>> >
>> >
>> >Regards.
>> >--
>> >==============================================
>> >|              FRÉDÉRIC MASSOT               |
>> >|     http://www.juliana-multimedia.com      |
>> >|   mailto:frederic at juliana-multimedia.com   |
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