# [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios: can't start as many kvm's as I thought due to memory pressure

Jan Vlach janus at volny.cz
Thu Mar 9 08:55:14 UTC 2017

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    Hi Pieter,

    Can you make your swapfile 96G or larger?

    If I recall correctly, KVM needs all it's RAM backed up by swap, because
    of fragmentation and other reasons.

    Jan

    On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:34:11AM +0000, pieter van puymbroeck wrote:
    > Hello Jan,
    >
    > $ swap -sh
    > total: 52G allocated + 100M reserved = 53G used, 8.8G available
    > $
    >
    > This is when 7 machines are running.
    > I face the issue when starting the 8th one.
    >
    > Br
    > Pieter
    >
    >
    > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

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