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

To: Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksandar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Large server, Xen limitations
From: Luke S Crawford <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 13 Jan 2009 16:26:45 -0500
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Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksandar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.

make sure dom0-min-mem in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp is set to something
sane,  I use 512 on my 8G servers and 1024 on my 32G servers.   Anything
less, depending on your linux distro and how much you are doing in the Dom0,
can give you out of memory errors.   


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