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Re: [Xen-devel] lowest limit for balloon?
| To: | aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] lowest limit for balloon? |
| From: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:38:33 +0100 |
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It's probably a job for higher-level management tools. Maybe a safety
catch should be placed on 'xm balloon', but the intra-VM
/proc/xen/balloon interface is definitely not intended for the casual
user.
-- Keir On 18 Jul 2005, at 11:57, aq wrote: urrently there is one problem with balloon: if we specify too little memory for a domain, that domain might crash with OOM error. even in that case, balloon still happily do what we request. i just accidentally balloon dom0 to 0M, and must reboot the machine ;-) so i guess it is better to enforce a certain limit, so balloon will not bring the amount of memory for a domain to be lower than that level. there are few choices to do this: - each domain has a configurable option for this (for example: balloon-level in domain config file) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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