- Issued:
- 2014-06-09
- Updated:
- 2014-06-09
RHEA-2014:0643 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
New package: Memory Overcommitment Manager
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new Memory Overcommitment Manager package is now available.
Description
Memory Overcommitment Manager (MOM) is a policy-driven tool for managing
overcommitment on KVM hosts. Using libvirt, MOM monitors active virtual machines
on hosts, and dynamically configures memory overcommitment policies. MOM
supports control of memory ballooning and Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM).
All users who require MOM on virtualization hosts are advised to install these
new packages.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1064427 - Update mom to the current upstream version
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
mom-0.4.0-1.el6ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 0b0e2ad87754318999f5f0e7195f6bc7226bc47d6aeabb5dff3f051046659996 |
x86_64 | |
mom-0.4.0-1.el6ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 821b907db66dc982de09f84b3a0276ac9aca16a887392abbee832067a4a95bf2 |
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