[Users] swap space?

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Wed Aug 22 05:20:39 EDT 2007


E Frank Ball III wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:18:53AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote:
>  > Hi there,
>  > I'm noticing that 'free' shows no swap space in a VE.
>  
>  > Is this something thats abstracted away (ie the VE gets to use the hosts 
>  > swap as needed) or is there a way to configure swap availability for 
>  > each VE?
>
>
> kernel 2.6.18-ovz028stab039.1-smp:  no swap, RAM = PRIVVMPAGES*256
>
> kernel 2.6.18-8.el5.028stab031.1:  swap = host swap, RAM = host RAM
> This does not seem right.
>   
This is not the kernel, this is just meminfo virtualization plus newer
vzctl which has --meminfo privvmages:1 by default.
> I haven't done much with the el5 kernel yet, my server is still using
> 2.6.18-ovz028stab039.1-smp.
>
>
>   



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