RHV: Virtual Machine memory usage shown in the Admin Portal is higher than expected

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Memory usage shown for the VM in the Admin Portal is too high and incorrect
  • The value shown in the Admin Portal seems to be based on "free" memory only, disregarding buffers and caches and counting those as used.
  • After doing some heavy I/O in the VM, memory usage goes to 99%
  • Dropping caches inside the VM makes the memory usage go back to the correct value.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.x
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 Guests.

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