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Re: [Xen-devel] Error restoring DomU when using GPLPV

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Error restoring DomU when using GPLPV
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:21:05 +0100
Cc: Joshua West <jwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 04/08/2009 08:58, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When the DomU is running, 'xm debug q' looks like:
> 
> (XEN) General information for domain 23:
> (XEN)     refcnt=3 dying=0 nr_pages=197611 xenheap_pages=33
> dirty_cpus={1} max_pages=197632
> 
> During restore, it looks like this:
> (XEN) General information for domain 22:
> (XEN)     refcnt=3 dying=0 nr_pages=196576 xenheap_pages=5 dirty_cpus={}
> max_pages=197632

Is the host simply out of memory? If dom22 above has 196576 pages and
max_pages=197632 then an allocation of 33 order-0 extents should not fail
due to over-commitment to the guest. The only reason for such a failure is
inadequate memory available in the host free pools. Perhaps xend
auto-ballooning is involved? I'd turn it off if so, as it blows. It could
have freed up one-page-too-few or somesuch.

 -- Keir



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