[newbie] Memory settings

[Gustavo Lapido Loureiro]

I changed my personal vm max memory to 8 GB since this will be the vm where I plan to run most of my applications, most of them memory consuming (Firefox with hundreds of opened tabs, video playing, image processing...). Initial memory was automatically adjusted to 800 MB. Memory balancing is turned on.

I have 12 GB of ram installed on my laptop.

Is this an acceptable procedure?

Before posting this I read this post

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/memory$20appvm/qubes-users/lxcMPl01hMM/uCe3PXhlJyEJ

and, although the final conclusion seems to be "Don't touch default settings, let automatic memory balancing take care of it", it is from 2014, so I wonder if things could have changed since then?

If it's still effective, then I wonder when it would be necessary to change those settings?

Thanks in advance

[Qubed One]

Gustavo Lapido Loureiro:

> I changed my personal vm max memory to 8 GB since this will be the vm
> where I plan to run most of my applications, most of them memory
> consuming (Firefox with hundreds of opened tabs, video playing, image
> processing...). Initial memory was automatically adjusted to 800 MB.
> Memory balancing is turned on.
>
> I have 12 GB of ram installed on my laptop.
>
> Is this an acceptable procedure?

Yes. All you've done is increased the maximum, which seems reasonable.

If memory balancing were turned off, it would mean setting aside all 8
GB any time the personal vm was running.

> Before posting this I read this post
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/memory$20appvm/qubes-users/lxcMPl01hMM/uCe3PXhlJyEJ
>
> and, although the final conclusion seems to be "Don't touch default
> settings, let automatic memory balancing take care of it", it is from
> 2014, so I wonder if things could have changed since then?
>
> If it's still effective, then I wonder when it would be necessary to
> change those settings?

In my own experience, I have reduced the RAM and disabled memory
balancing for vms like sys-net, sys-firewall, VPNs etc.

I have also increased the fixed (non memory balanced) RAM in win7
standalone vms.


> Thanks in advance
>