[Users] A question about Node RAM

jjs - mainphrame jjs at mainphrame.com
Fri Jan 6 13:18:23 EST 2012


I'm running openvz on Debian 6 and recently switched to the rhel6-based
kernel which provides the vswap configuration option. That was a big
improvement, and the rhel kernel rpms were very easy to convert to debs
which worked like a charm.

Joe

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Quentin MACHU <quentin.machu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for this answer.
> So, we can use 128Gb/256Gb server ? =]
>
> Actually, we're working on Debian 6.
> Do you have any tips on Distro / Kernel ?
>
> Debian 6 + Kernel from Debian repos is really stable ? Debian 5 more maybe
> ?
>
> We'll have 6*3To HardDrive SAS in RAID 10 to improve I/O
> And Two *Opteron 6128 8 cores* Magny-Cours 8x 2Ghz.
>
> Do you think it's ok for something like 126 VM with 1Gb of RAM ? =)
>
> Thanks for all :)
>
>
>
> 2012/1/6 Kirill Korotaev <dev at parallels.com>
>
>> Sure, it's old information and likely it was about 32bit kernels which
>> are limited to 64GB just because CPUs are... :)
>> 64bit kernels are not limited anyhow and OpenVZ is not different in this
>> regard from standard Linux.
>>
>> fixed a couple of places I found with 64GB mentioning:
>>
>> http://wiki.openvz.org/Different_kernel_flavors_(UP,_SMP,_ENTERPRISE,_ENTNOSPLIT)
>> http://wiki.openvz.org/FAQ#How_scalable_is_OpenVZ.3F
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kirill
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 20:59 , Quentin MACHU wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've a question for this mailing-list ^^
>> >
>> > My enterprise is going to order a 128Gb of RAM server.
>> > I saw that the OpenVZ Kernel can only support 64Gb.
>> >
>> > That's because the wiki isn't up to date ?
>> > What's about that ?
>> > How to bypass this limit ? Can we ?
>> > Recompiling the kernel.. ?
>> >
>> > It's important for us =)
>> >
>> > Thanks !
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Users mailing list
>> > Users at openvz.org
>> > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cordialement,
> MACHU Quentin
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at openvz.org
> https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://openvz.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20120106/1e0a4bc9/attachment.html


More information about the Users mailing list