Re: [Xen-users] Weird xl mem-set behavior

[Iain Kay <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Claudiu,

Xen 4.1.0 stable from the tar archive running on CentOS 5.6 with Jeremy's 
2.6.32.x kernel seems rock solid for me.

I boot with dom0_mem=512M and get domain 0 with bang on 512MB of ram allocated.

Just tried ammending the line to 1024M and have domain-0 booted with 1024MB of 
ram.

        Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   
Time(s)
        Domain-0                                     0  1024     2     r-----   
  15.9

Iain

On 18 May 2011, at 16:22, Claudiu CurcÄ wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm struggling to handle the amount of memory that dom0 gets on some system.
> 
> It's a system with 8GB of RAM, running 2.6.38-6 with pv_ops and Xen 4.1
> If I want to set the amount of memory for dom0, I get very bogus
> results. See here: http://pastebin.com/gRgY9ERN If I use the M
> notation (xl mem-set 0 4096M) the outcome is similarily unpredictable,
> and sometimes I get the memory set to something like 200-300MB and in
> rare cases a kernel panic.
> 
> Also, if I set the "dom0_mem=X" kernel parameter, the amount of memory
> Xen gives to dom0 is fairly random... sometimes 2GB, sometimes 6GB,
> sometimes ~500MB, regrardless of what value I use or the unit I use (M
> or no unit, for the default KB).
> 
> Anyone else has experienced this in Xen 4.1? Thanks!
> 
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