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Re: [Xen-users] Memory problems persist... Cannot allocate memory

To: James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Memory problems persist... Cannot allocate memory
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:22:35 +0200
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:36:21PM -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > If you set "dom0_mem=4096M" try to set "dom0_min_mem=4096" in 
> > xend-config.sxp
> > You said that the system ran a long time before showing "can't allocate 
> > memory"
> > it could be a problem with memory fragmentation or a memory leak.
> > I saw something about that setting a long time ago, but I always use it.
> > 
> 
> So you always set the dom0_min_mem equal to what you set the kernel
> parameter to? I'll keep that in mind. I can't change anything right now
> because I've opened a ticket with Novell and waiting to hear back. 
> 

Let us know how it goes..

> The strange thing right now is, there's free memory in dom0, free memory
> in swap, and a lot of free ram in xm (from xm info). 
> 

Definitely sounds like a bug.. Just don't reboot the box before they 
get what they need to debug it :)

-- Pasi


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