Re: [Xen-devel] xen 2.0 testing idle_loop -and -03

[Adam Sulmicki <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > 1) extreme slowness
> 'cat /proc/xen/balloon' will tell you how much memory your domain has.
> You'll see the current allocation is somewhat less than the 'requested
> target'. This is because the backend I/O drivers steal some kernel
> address space and the RAM that was mapped in that space is freed back
> to Xen. I wouldn't expect the current allocation to be more than maybe
> 6MB lower than the 64MB target though.
>
> Also, what does 'cat /proc/meminfo' look like?
attached meminfo, balloon and output of both, all of them right after 
starting dom0
also attached outout of dmesg which shows oom-killer in action (already!) 
as well as output of "echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger"
> > > > 2) won't boot on p3 with compiled for for cyrix
> > > Has that ever worked? I did recently fix a problem with
> > > CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW, so were you testing a very up to date version of
> > > the repository? If you are totally stuck send me your .config and I
> > > can build and test.
> > yeah, it worked just fine on xen 2.0 release. I could compile kernel with
> > CONFIG_MCYRIXIII and then run the same kernel on both P3 and via (with
> > some special patches). This time the kernel bombed on P3 (have not tried
> > it on via).
> >
> > the repository was as of yesterday.
> I'll try building with CYRIXIII selected. If that works for me then I
> guess it must be something else in your config.
FWIW, I just d/l pristine tree and used almost default config (except the 
cyrix setting) just especially to see if it is somethin with my config.

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