[Lguest] memory question

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:34:51 am Don W Rudish wrote:
> Can someone please help me understand why my lguest guest kernel uses 
> ~26mb of memory for my ~3mb kernel?

What was your lguest commandline?  Looks like you told it to use about 30MB?

(The argument after the -- options and before the image name is the amount
of memory in mb);

> Memory: 26148k/30720k available (1815k kernel code, 4568k reserved, 527k 
> data, 216k init, 0k highmem)

Hope that helps,
Rusty.