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Re: [Xen-users] extra = "mem=1024" and maxmem

How much memory are you expecting to use?  512MB?

You should really not be using the extra="mem=512M" line, as it shouldn't be necessary.

Also, is 2.6.16-xenU the right version?  Shouldn't it be 2.6.18 for 3.1.0?

On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:25 AM, tgh wrote:

hi
   I try to do it in the xen-3.1.0,but it does NOT work,or are  there something I should do?
   does it work in the xen-3.1.0?
     the config file:
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-xenU"
memory = 256
maxmem = 512
name = "dom7"
vcpus = 1
vif = [ '' ]
netmask = "255.255.0.0"
gateway = "192.168.150.1"
hostname = "domp"
ip = "192.168.100.202"
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
extra = "4"
extra = "mem = 512M"

what should I do?
could you help me

Thanks in advance





Jayson Vantuyl 写道:
I'm not sure.

I use it on 3.0.4-tip.  I do not know if it works with earlier versions.

On May 15, 2007, at 6:47 PM, tgh wrote:

hi
I am using xen-3.0.3,and I try to set "memory" and "maxmem" following your discussion,but it does work as expected
Does it only work in xen-3.0.4 and later version,or what should I do ?

could you help me
Thanks in advance


Jayson Vantuyl 写道:
There are really three options.


'extra= "mem=1024"' tells the kernel inside of the domain that it only has a 1GB of memory. This is really not the way to do this. Instead use memory=1024.

"maxmem" tells the hypervisor and the kernel inside of the domain how large it could get. This can be adjusted at any time, but Linux domains don't use it after boot time. The advantage of using this option is that the Linux inside of the domain sizes its internal tables so it can grow to that size. This means that you can dynamically change the amount of memory available inside of the domain.

For example, if you have these options for a domain:

memory=1024
maxmem=4096

You will have the kernel boot up with 1GB of memory. At any point you can increase it to, for example, 2 GB with this command:

xm mem-set <domain> 2048

The kernel will automagically increase to 2GB of RAM. This is, as you might imagine, extremely cool.

Also, you can always size down a domain below its initial RAM usage to free up memory it is not using, which can be handy on busy or complex production servers.

On May 15, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Denny Schierz wrote:

hi,

what is the different between the domU config parameter:

[...]
extra = "mem=1024"
[..]


and

[...]
maxmem="1024"
[...]

is maxmem only available on 3.0.4 and later?

cu denny

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