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Re: [Xen-users] cannot allocate memory

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] cannot allocate memory
From: "Christopher G. Stach II" <cgs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:44:03 -0200
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Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have Xen 3.0.3 on an opensuse 10.2.
> This is the status of my memory:
> 
> mihamina@asus:~> free 
>        total      used      free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:   1777664    1769308   8356          0      16288     673308
> Swap:  6626728    60        6626668
> 
> 
> Whne I create a ("256M RAM", "1 vcpu") domU:
> [...]
> Error: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory')
> [...]
> 
> Well. The message is quite clear. But my swap is still free (6GB man!).
> I guess the Xen utility is not able to swap things. What is the common
> way to free some RAM? is there a kind of 'swapwhatever <PID>' magic tool
> you would recommend? I wont reboot my box in order to free memory!
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Virtual memory can't be allocated to guests.  Free some real memory.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II


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