Re: [Xen-devel] can not use all available memory

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:21:32PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This question belongs on xen-users.
> 
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 11:35 +0000, Alexander Bienzeisler wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > i just tried to add a domU with 16 gigs of ram (maxmem = 16384, memory = 
> > 16384) with free_memory : 28969 but got an error:
> > 
> > libxl: error: libxl.c:3433:libxl_set_memory_target: new target 0 for 
> > dom0 is below the minimum threshold
> 
> The clue is in this message -- you cannot safely balloon down a guest
> (including dom0) to an arbitrarily small value relative to its initial
> size. The kernel will have certain fixed datastructures etc which are
> sized according to the maximum amount of RAM at start of day.
> 
> If you were to balloon down too low then you would run out of RAM and
> the OOM killer would step in and start killing stuff, so xl includes a
> safety catch which prevents this.
> 
> If you have a huge host and want a small dom0 use the dom0_mem option
> and disable xl's autoballoon option or whatever the equivalent xend
> option is.
> 

I think he was already using dom0_mem. He had 28969 free in Xen as reported by 
"xl info".

-- Pasi


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