On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:35:07PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 21:48 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:45:36PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > > > So what does "xm info" say about free memory? How much does the guest
> > > > you're trying to start have memory configured for it?
> > > >
> > > > -- Pasi
> > >
> > > The domU only has 512meg.
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Really weird.
> > How about dom0, does it have free memory?
> >
> > This was SLES11?
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >
> > > # xm info
> > > host : xen06
> > > release : 2.6.27.19-5-xen
> > > version : #1 SMP 2009-02-28 04:40:21 +0100
> > > machine : x86_64
> > > nr_cpus : 16
> > > nr_nodes : 1
> > > cores_per_socket : 4
> > > threads_per_core : 2
> > > cpu_mhz : 2533
> > > hw_caps :
> > > bfebfbff:28100800:00000000:00000340:009ce3bd:00000000:00000001:00000000
> > > virt_caps : hvm
> > > total_memory : 32757
> > > free_memory : 12769
> > > max_free_memory : 13280
> > > max_para_memory : 13276
> > > max_hvm_memory : 13236
> > > node_to_cpu : node0:0-15
> > > node_to_memory : node0:12769
> > > xen_major : 3
> > > xen_minor : 4
> > > xen_extra : .1_19718_04-26.
> > > xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
> > > hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> > > xen_scheduler : credit
> > > xen_pagesize : 4096
> > > platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
> > > xen_changeset : 19718
> > > cc_compiler : gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision
> > > 141291] (SUSE Linux)
> > > cc_compile_by : abuild
> > > cc_compile_domain :
> > > cc_compile_date : Wed Oct 14 00:02:21 UTC 2009
> > > xend_config_format : 4
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > James
> > >
>
> Looks like dom0 is just about out of memory. It currently has 1 gb of
> RAM. Looks like I changed menu.lst on Dec 12 to give it 2 gb of RAM, but
> I haven't had a chance to restart it. It's been up for 29 days. It's a
> dual quad core machine with 32gb of ram. It will probably run 12-18
> domU's when all is said and done ranging anywhere from 512M to 4gb of
> ram. Mixed Windows and Linux. Do you think 2gb of ram is enough for dom0
> or should I go more, like 3 or 4gb?
>
2GB definitely should be enough.. afaik.
> "top" gives me:
> top - 14:18:13 up 29 days, 17:41, 3 users, load average: 0.47, 0.77, 0.71
> Tasks: 302 total, 3 running, 299 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.4%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.4%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.4%st
> Mem: 1047040k total, 1036656k used, 10384k free, 7816k buffers
> Swap: 2104472k total, 2104156k used, 316k free, 53876k cached
>
So what's eating all the memory and swap?
-- Pasi
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