How to determine the memory allocated to the Hyper-V balloon driver [hv_balloon] on the Hyper-V guest system?
Issue
- The memory usage on the system is high as per the
usedfield of thefreecommand. However, total memory usage from user-space processes is low. - How to determine the memory allocated to Hyper-V Balloon driver [
hv_balloon] from VMcore? - How to determine the memory allocated to Hyper-V Balloon driver [
hv_balloon] from the running system?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Microsoft Corporation Hyper-V
- Hyper-V Balloon module: [
hv_balloon]
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