On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>
> On 30 Mar 2006, at 19:43, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
>
> >My dom0 has 2g ram allocated, and I have 2.5 G Ram physically in my
> >machine.
> >I needed more Ram in domU so I did a
>
> If you don't start your domU with a 'mem=2G' or similar as a boot
> parameter then the domU will be unable to increase its memory
> allocation beyond its initial boot-time allocation. In this case, 'xm
> list' is lying to you -- it tells you what memory target the tools has
> asked the domU to aim for, not what the domU is currently using. :-)
>
> That's my guess anyway -- the free memory reported by 'xm info' is
> definitely the truth, so 'xm list' is lying and that's probably the
> reason why. Take a look in the domU and see what it thinks. Also in the
> domU, look at the contents of /proc/xen/balloon.
Yes, that's right -- xm list shows the configured or requested memory, not the
amount it's actually using. Personally, I'd consider that a bug -- feel free
to file it.
Ewan.
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