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Re: [Xen-users] Ballooning and Free memory in xm info

To: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Ballooning and Free memory in xm info
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:10:45 +0100
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On Saturday 19 July 2008, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > Make sure to disable autoballooning so you don't confuse things by
> > accidentally shrinking dom0 further :-)
>
> Will I get away with dom0_mem or should I pass dom0-min-mem=0 in the
> xendconfig? Or is there a cmdline param that disables ballooning?

The xend config setting is the way to do this.  If dom0_mem on the command 
line is less than dom0-min-mem in the config file then autoballooning won't 
happen anyway; it seems sensible to make it explicit, though.

Cheers,
Mark


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