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[Xen-users] Re: Large server, Xen limitations

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Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Large server, Xen limitations
From: Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksandar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:58:15 +0100
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Steve Thompson <smt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> - With a large number of guests, you have to be more careful with
> their start/stop/start order to avoid the 'out of memory' error.

Can you elaborate on this? 

I have a 8Gb server running a dozen or so VMs with combined memory
usage (as reported by xm list) never over 6Gb and been getting strange
intermittent out of memory errors.



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