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Re: [Xen-users] does dom0 baloon memory?

To: "Rudi Ahlers" <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] does dom0 baloon memory?
From: "Jeff Lane" <sundowner225@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:08:55 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't see where / how dom0's memory limit is set, yet I often see it only
> having 5MB RAM left.
>
>
> [root@venus ~]# free -m
>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           513        467         45          0         43        213
> -/+ buffers/cache:        210        302
> Swap:         2047          0       2047
> [root@venus ~]# xm list
> Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                                   0      513     1 r-----   1416.1
> vm01                                       3      511     2 -b----    348.1
>
>
> This is just after a restart
>
>
> xentop - 22:32:49   Xen 3.1.0-53.1.21.el5
> 2 domains: 1 running, 1 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown
> Mem: 4183548k total, 1131112k used, 3052436k free    CPUs: 2 @ 2666MHz
>     NAME  STATE   CPU(sec) CPU(%)     MEM(k) MEM(%)  MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%)
> VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS   VBD_OO   VBD_RD   VBD_WR SSI
> D
>  Domain-0 -----r       1416    0.1     525892   12.6   no limit       n/a
>   2    4   111435    32837    0        0        0        0
> 0
>     vm01 --b---        348    0.1     524120   12.5    2097152      50.1
> 2    1    39773    15732    0        0        0        0
>
>
> After running for a while the memory on dom0 is very little, and it's a bit
> slow. How do I increase the max mem for dom0 ?

I'm confused.  Looking at all this, it looks like your dom0 has 512MB,
not 5MB.  Same for VM01.

What's the output of xm info??

What are the specs for your machine?

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