Re: [Xen-users] domU minimum and maximum memory

[Timo Benk <timo.benk@xxxxxx>]

AFAIK the maxmem parameter does not work.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:58:35 +0100, Mike Williams <mike.williams@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Thursday 22 June 2006 15:26, Tim Wood wrote:
>> There is no built in mechanism for this, mostly to make sure you aren't
>> overcommitting the total memory you have in the system.  If you want
> this
>> kind of functionality you would have to build a script which monitors
>> memory usage on each VM and uses the mem-set command to adjust as
>> necessary.  But that would be fairly tricky.
> 
> Thanks for that, it's something to think about.
> However, what does the maxmem option do? :) I forced a VM to use up all
> it's 
> alloted memory, with several hundred more megs maxmem, and just like you'd
> 
> expect, the kernel started killing processes.... Xen didn't do anything.
> 
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