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Re: [Xen-devel] xen balloon issue?
>>> "Robbie Garertt" <rgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 16.03.10 15:46 >>>
>I know this may not be the correct place here and hopefully I will not get
>flamed for this but I am searching for an answer to my problem and I think it
>may be a bug?
xen-users would likely be the better place to ask questions like this.
>I have a xen server setup and running version 3.4.2. Kernel version is
>2.6.31.12.
>My issue here is that when I do a free -m within the Vm is shows less, some
>times more ram then what the config files shows. Here is an example of what
>I see from xend starting the domU.
>[2010-03-14 17:09:45 2598] DEBUG (balloon:166) Balloon: 7766704 KiB free; need
>526336; done.
>526336 /1024 = 514MB
>When I do a free -m within the domU I get it showing me a total of 506mb.
>when I do cat /proc/meminfo is shows a total of 518220 which is 506mb.
>
>
>It would appear that for what ever reason my system is off by 19MB when it
>comes to 512mb, and 28mb per gb. I had to set my testing.cfg file to 531MB
>to get free -m to show 512mb of total memory inside a domU and 1052 to get it
>to so show 1024.
>can anyone provide any insight as to why or where i may go in an attempt to
>get this solved? 20mb adds up to a lot when you run several domu's
Just compare with what you get on native: If you have 8Gb in the machine, you
won't be shown a total of 8192Mb either. Linux is not precise in this respect.
Jan
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