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Re: [Xen-users] Memory problems persist... Cannot allocate memory

> > 
> > 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
> 

What's the best way to see what's using all the memory and swap?

Thanks,
James


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