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Re: [Xen-users] flexible memory management?

To: "Gary W. Smith" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] flexible memory management?
From: Sven Köhler <skoehler@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:12:59 +0100
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> Um, remove dom0_mem=128M or set it higher.  The memory allocation is dynamic 
> and grows down as the DomU's need it.  So set it to something like 512mb and 
> let Xen reduce it as it needs to.  

So it works! memory is transferred from dom0 to domU on demand.

But as i reduce the domU's size with "xm mem-set", the memory does not
flow back to dom0 automatically.

I wonder, if that's possible too.

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