[Openstack] Memory requirements for OpenStack vs VM

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Tue May 21 19:34:08 UTC 2013


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
> 
> 
> 
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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).

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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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