Re: [Xen-users] Xend stopped unexpectedly

[Adam Wilbraham <adam.wilbraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/09 11:39, Tapio Salonsaari wrote:

> Ok, so it seems my assumptions was correct. I knew that it's possible
> that kernel will kill processes if there's no resources to keep them
> running but I just wondered if xend is somehow protected from it. I
> don't know if this is even possible but if it is IMO xend should
> automatically have higher priority so that it's not the first on line of
> fire.
Does your system have plenty of swap? I've been running a beefy dom0 
with at least 20 odd domUs running and dom0 has only had a fixed 512MB 
allocated to it for the majority of its life.
> Stability is however still an issue and I'm not yet sure if growing
> dom0-min-memory -limit solved the problem. And I'm still interested why
> some of domU's survived xend crash and is it even possible to recover
> from such situation gracefully?
I'm not sure I can answer this bit for you as I've never really been in 
the situation.
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