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Re: [Xen-users] Ballooning and Free memory in xm info

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Ballooning and Free memory in xm info
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:23:50 +0100
Cc: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Saturday 19 July 2008, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Is it expected behavior that when ballooning is enabled the amount of
> free memory visisble is 28k (thus: 0) in free_memory?

Do you mean autoballooning of dom0?  Before you've started and destroyed any 
guests then I'd guess this is normal - dom0 will have been sized to use all 
available memory.  From Xen's PoV the memory is not free because dom0 
currently owns it; dom0 will free it to Xen before starting a domU when 
autoballooning is active.

Or did you mean something else?

Cheers,
Mark


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