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New VolumeDrive VPS Weird Ram Usage
Hey everyone, I read some aweful reviews of VolumeDrive and I have also read some good reviews of VolumeDrive. Two days ago I decided to signup for their cheapest VPS plan for $4.95/month and you get: 1GB Ram/2GB Burst, 50GB HDD. My VPS was setup in under 12 hours which was a very good sign. However, when I do free -m in my VPS, it says I have 31GB Ram?? How can this be right? In VePortal, it says I have 1GB Ram/2GB Burst.
Here is my free -m:
[root@V-3771 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 32112 297 31814 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache:297 31814
Swap: 859 0 859
[root@V-3771 ~]#
VePortal: http://i41.tinypic.com/6qvcpt.png
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Lucky you, open a support ticket.
Sounds to me that VolumeDrive has not updated their OpenVZ in years.
Here is a picture of my VePortal: http://i41.tinypic.com/6qvcpt.png
yep, i have a client who use volumedrive vps too. got the same result like yours. 32GB burstable.
@DotVPS
[root@V-3771 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 44
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.150
cache size : 12288 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 32
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 4800.30
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
Can you use it? Try running the script from http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/18080#Comment_18080 with parameter "30000000000"
@DotVPS
[root@V-3771 ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.028stab091.1
@breton
[root@V-3771 ~]# gcc -lrt test_mem -o test_mem
/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../crt1.o: In function
_start': (.text+0x18): undefined reference tomain'collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[root@V-3771 ~]# ./test_mem
-bash: ./test_mem: No such file or directory
Err, you just cannot compile it. Try running already compiled version -
and then
Or install libc-dev (I don't know how it is named in CentOS) and try compiling again.
@breton
[root@V-3771 ~]# ./test_mem 30000000000
Could not allocate requested memory
Could not allocate requested memory
Great, malloc() didn't work. Try other number of bytes - 16000000000, 8000000000 etc.
But the above shows that you cannot use that memory.
@breton
[root@V-3771 ~]# ./test_mem 16000000000
Could not allocate requested memory
[root@V-3771 ~]# ./test_mem 8000000000
Could not allocate requested memory
However, when I try to use 2GB Ram, which is my burst ram, it works:
[root@V-3771 ~]# ./test_mem 2000000000
Execution time: 2.696830
Press enter when memory should be freed
I think it's an old OpenVZ Bug...
http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=1927&;
VePortal looks bad, never used any host with it but at the first look it does looks bad like HyperVM.
SolusVM all the way.
Try to allocate under 4gb, as the burst is set to 4.something and the guarrenteed is 32+gb
@Bernardoo
When we first started business we were using Veportal. It was bad when we were using it, we switched to solusvm and never looked back
So they gave you a VPS with the ability to crash their servers? That's pretty awesome/wrong/interesting.
It looks so, with 32GB burstable. LOL..
No, it's 4gb burst and 34.5gb guaranteed, but you hit the burst limit first. 32gb is the amount of ram the node has.
Are you sure ? normally burst should be the maximum possibility and guaranteed should be "at least". How could be burstable is lower than guaranteed ?
Have I missed something here ?
No, you haven't. I'm pretty sure @dmmcintyre3 has no idea what he's talking about or he's mixed them up.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=id2vEJU9
If the messed up formatting isn't confusing me, the privvmpages limit is 1024288 (4001.125M) and the vmguarpages/oomguarpages is 6024288 (23,532.375M)
EDIT: after fixing the formatting, I noticed the barrier on privvmpages is 32.51GB which is why vzfree would say that was the burst ram on the volumdrive VPS I had a few months ago.