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[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] (xen) Possible bug: Memory squeeze in netbac

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] (xen) Possible bug: Memory squeeze in netback driver.
From: Erik Hensema <erik@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:52:26 +0200
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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 23:43, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This is a rather curious path in the code involving rate limiting
> that I'm not all that familiar with.  Does it help is you create
> the domains with a large maxmem than memory?  For instance:
>
> maxmem = 512
> memory = 256

Yes, it does seem to help. I've recreated almost all domains with 16 
MB 'headroom', now I can create domains up until the point I run out 
of loop devices ;-) (6 domU's running ATM)
I'll reboot tonight (or shutdown all domains and reload the loop 
module) and try to start more domains.


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Erik Hensema (erik@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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