[Openstack] About over-commit memory

Wolfgang Richter wolf at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Jun 21 22:29:50 UTC 2012


The third VM is of the same flavor as the other two?  At least, it is
only trying to use 2GB RAM as well?

Which hypervisor is in use (kvm)?

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Wolf

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Sam Su <susltd.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vish,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I added a 'line ram_allocation_ratio=10' in nova.conf, then restarted
> nova-scheduler in control node. after that was done, I tried to create a VM,
> but it still failed, and the debug info is showing as below:
> http://pastebin.com/RDHb9fDU
>
> Can you help me to take a look at the error info at your convenience?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Try setting:
>>
>> ram_allocation_ratio=10
>>
>> in your nova.conf (it defaults to 1.5)
>>
>> Vish
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Sam Su wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a mini openstack environment with one compute node and one nova
>> control node. There is 4G memory in the compute node, and I have allocated 2
>> VMs with 2G memory for each VM. When I try to create another VM , I get the
>> error as below:
>> http://pastebin.com/QZMQvXtB
>>
>> I am wondering whether Openstack has support memory overcommit? How to do
>> this?
>>
>> It will be much appreciated If someone can give me some hints about this
>> in convenience.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
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