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Re: [MirageOS-devel] Memory requirements for a typical Mirage OS VM



On 22 Feb 2014, at 22:13, Julian Chesterfield <julian.chesterfield@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Doesn't the website image include the embedded content as well?

yes

> Is the content stored compressed? 

no

> So hosting the website image will require more ram than a minimal image.

yes; hence my question about what "typical" means :)

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 22 Feb 2014, at 15:55, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 22 Feb 2014, at 11:41, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 21 Feb 2014, at 18:58, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> can you tell us what the memory requirements of a typical Mirage OS VM 
>>>> are.
>>> 
>>> er, define typical... :)
>>> 
>>> there are some figures on memory footprint (now perhaps a little outdated) 
>>> in the mirage ASPLOS'13 paper. the latest xen image in the 
>>> mirage-www-deployment repo looks like ~2.5MB for the entire 
>>> http://openmirage.org website.
>> 
>> The live Mirage website is configured with 64MB of RAM, fwiw.  It could 
>> probably be lowered, but we haven't bothered trying recently.  It's on the 
>> list of things to do (integrate the GC with the balloon driver, and/or 
>> experiment with the page sharing APIs for immutable data).
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> If you have visibility of size needs of HalVM, ErlangOnXen, ... 
>>>> that would be helpful too
>>> 
>>> sorry, i don't, don't know if anyone else does.
>> 
>> I'm not aware of any published numbers for the others either, sorry.
>> 
>> -anil
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Cheers,

R.




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