<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Openstack host show compute-host, shows more memory allocated to instances than actual physical memory, although the memory allocation ratio is 1.0 in nova.conf, the same is also shown in horizon dashboard hypervisor statistics. We can see this in many compute nodes in the cluster. Also these statistics does not match with free -g or cat /proc/meminfo.</div><div><br></div><div>For Example :                                  Memory_mb</div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">| compute-node23 | (total) <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">                    |</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>257915 |<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">| compute-node23 | (used_now) <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">          </span>|<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>271360 |<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">| compute-node23 | (used_max) <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">          </span>|<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>267264 |<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">How to avoid misleading statistics, also which statistics are actually correct?</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">versions :</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> openstack : Stein</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"> nova : 2:19.3.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Regards,</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Akkina </p></div></div>