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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qe

To: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:36:57 +0100
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Stefan de Konink, le Tue 29 Jul 2008 10:33:05 +0200, a écrit :
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > > And you don't count the 331MB virtual memory the process takes, and every
> > > tapdisk that is created?
> >
> > Tapdisk doesn't need physical memory.  It is address space used to map
> > in guest pages.
> 
> Maybe you use a different version of Xen... I'm using 3.2.1 until the Dell
> patches of the 2.6.19 kernel are backported, or I get the Vanilla kernel
> running on 64bits.
> 
> 
> root      3005  0.0  0.1   8404  1012 ?        S    Jul26   0:00 xenstored 
> --pid-file /var/run/xenstore.pid
> root      3009  0.0  1.8  99416  9936 ?        S    Jul26   0:00 python 
> /usr/sbin/xend start
> root      3011  0.0  0.1  20540   680 ?        Sl   Jul26   0:00 xenconsoled
> root      3013  0.0 10.7 242876 56492 ?        Sl   Jul26   0:01 python 
> /usr/sbin/xend start
> root      3014  0.0  0.1  27252   904 ?        Ssl  Jul26   0:00 blktapctrl
> root     13985  0.0  0.1  27332   832 ?        Sl   11:17   0:00 tapdisk 
> /var/run/tap/tapctrlwrite1 /var/run/tap/tap

Please provide the columns headers, else it's impossible to say
anything about these numbers.

> The amount of memory for xend seem to increased with 7MB (from 49MB) now
> this is not even close to the 32MB or 16MB value that was mentioned
> before.

Please do not confuse with what I said about stubdom-dm, which is to
replace qemu-dm only, not xend.

Samuel

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