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How much memory are you running for the console?

I have mine set at 512MB, some peopel say overkill, some people say it's good..

What is everyone doing and how many VM's do you have on your Host?

512mb - 33VM's

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christianZ
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I would say check it with "top" - when no swapping - it is ok - have here 320 MB w/o swapping now, or I'm wrong ?

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oreeh
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800M with 12VMs

configured that many because

\- I might need some more VMs

\- I might need to run some agents (or other stuff) in the COS

\- memory is cheap compared to downtime

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I am running at 512mb as the standard currently

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christianZ
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I would say check it with "top" - when no swapping - it is ok - have here 320 MB w/o swapping now, or I'm wrong ?

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RParker
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Well as the other user pointed out, memory is cheap compared to downtime. What's 512 meg of RAM when you have 16 gig to work with. Chances are you may not need that much, but what the hell, give it as much as you think you will need and add some.

Personally, other than not having enough to run console apps with all the VM's running, I don't see what the extra memory really gets you.....

I configure it to recommended settings, which is 384, that seems to be fine. Maybe other people need more because they spend more time in the console, I don't. I do all my stuff remotely once the VM's are running.

But hey, to each their own.

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stollefson
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Majority of the servers i work with are set to 512MB with 30-40 VMs.

Dev Servers are set to 384MB with 15-20VMs

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kix1979
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800MB on Production machines, but I have the default 272 on my R&D boxes.

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CWedge
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Has anyone actually looked at available memory on the console?

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jhanekom
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I use the default of 272MB on our (arguably modest) installation, with about 15 VMs per ESX host. We run HP Insight Management Agents, OpenView agents and SystemEdge agents in the service console, and still have ~110MB free on all my hosts (as can bee see from the "free -m" output below.)

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 261 255 6 0 48 57

-/+ buffers/cache: 148 113

Swap: 1600 28 1571

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