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RE: [Xen-devel] How much memory does a domain REALLY use...

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] How much memory does a domain REALLY use...
From: "Graham, Simon" <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:26:19 -0500
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] How much memory does a domain REALLY use...
> > Hmm - it does indeed seem to be somewhat dependent on the size of
the
> > machine; I have a bunch of systems from 2GB to 16GB all of which are
> > running a 768MB Dom0 currently; here's what I see for used memory
> > (total/free as reported by xenstat) for some of these when just Dom0
> is
> > running:
> >
> > . 2GB system; 794MB used
> > . 6GB system; 830MB used
> > . 8GB system; 840MB used
> > . 16GB system; 890MB used
> 
> Yes, there's an overhead of 7MB per 1GB on i386, and 12MB per 1GB on
> x86/64.

What is the overhead for and where would I find it allocated?

Thanks,
Simon

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