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Re: [Xen-devel] fix for bug 651?

To: "Krysan, Susan" <KRYSANS@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] fix for bug 651?
From: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:50:13 +0100
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>changeset 10546
>(<http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?cs=3D8242c0c24db7>)
>looked promising as a fix for bug #651
><http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D651>, but I
>can still trigger the OOM killer.   I get a kernel panic out of memory
>error when I do a mem-set of dom0 to 512 on a 32GB system and mem-set of
>dom0 to 256 on 8GB system. 

Cset 10546 just makes it less likely - you'll pretty much always be 
able to trigger oom on linux if you reduce the memory by enough. I 
can't imagine any magic to fix this unfortunately :-)

Best practice is probably simply to empirically determine an approximate 
minimum phys mem and swap setup for the workload/machine you have, and 
then stick above that. 

cheers,

S.

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