Re: [CentOS] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

> How could I work around this? Any other pointers for achieving higher  > density welcome (don't suggest container technology please). See memory ballooning. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

Hello, We all know linux distros will use most of the free memory available for caching stuff, I/O buffers etc (hence sites like linuxatemyram.com). In many virt scenarios we have some sort of memory deduplication mechanisms, such as KSM on KVM (don't know how it's called in Vmware). My situati