Hi Chris: There are some nova config options aim to reserve resources for hosts: reserved_host_memory_mb (default: 512 MB) reserved_host_disk_mb (default: 0 MB) Regards! --- JuanFra 2013/5/21 Matthew Thode <prometheanfire at gentoo.org> > On 05/21/13 12:24, Chris Bartels wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > If I rent a VPS with 32GB RAM on a server that only has 32GB RAM in > total, > > could OpenStack be choked for memory if the VPS tries to use up all that > > RAM, or will OpenStack be weighted to take priority over the memory the > > server has available? > > > > > > > > Should I only allocate 30GB to the VPS & leave OpenStack a 2GB minimum to > > work with just to be safe? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > You can likely use cgroups to give priority to memory used by openstack > daemons. Depends on how deep you want to get into it I guess (and your > memory pressure). > > -- > -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130522/8fa2fbe0/attachment.html>