[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] newbie question 2
On November 25, 10:43 am Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am seting up my new Xen 2.0 server. In the examples Domain0 is given > > 128MB Ram. I got greedy and tweaked it down to 64 MB; things got bad. > > But how little can Domain0 do with (assuming it is only used to > > administer Xen)?Any success stories with < 128MB? > > I'm surprised you're having trouble with 64MB -- xend is pretty fat, but > its not that fat! Some of the memory dom0 get's booted with > actually gets returned to Xen, so you'll probably find the memory > usage reported by 'xm list' is a few MB lower than the amount you > started it with. > > Are you sure you're not starting some other application in your > rc scripts that is consuming a lot of memory? Perhaps configure a > swapfile... > Ian > i'm running xen 2.0 on a bi celeron 400 and i've dedicted 32 Mo to dom0 mat@zeus:/$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 32768 31888 880 0 0 9552 -/+ buffers/cache: 22336 10432 Swap: 506008 8828 497180 And i'm forecasting to reduce it maybe to 24 Mo The biggest process in memory are xend + xm (because i'm doing a xm console foobar). I've slightly modified the dom0 kernel to get unusefull parts out but i think the reduction isn't huge (1 or 2 Mo) i'm running a 2.4.27 kernel HTH Matthieu ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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