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Re: [Xen-devel] Debian linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 2.6.32-11 doesn't

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Debian linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 2.6.32-11 doesn't boot with > 4 GiB; resets immediatelly, no log messages
From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:20:33 +0800
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 02:49 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> Excellent.
>>>     
>> Could this be also the reason why I had very funky memory management
>> (eg: some RAM missing between "xm list" and "xm info")?
>>   
> 
> I don't think so.  Before I added the "unused memory freeing" code, then
> you'd see memory assigned to a domain that the domain itself couldn't
> use, and so it was effectively wasted.  With the memory-freeing in
> place, the "xm list" and the domain's internal view of memory should be
> basically the same.
> 
> Either way, it shouldn't have any effect on the global memory accounting
> shown by xm info.
> 
>     J

Then do you have an idea why "xm info" shows a bit more, 900 MB free /
3990 MB total, while "xm list" shows only a 2048 dom0 running??? I'm not
talking about just few bytes here, but one third of my RAM gone ...
What's going on?

Thomas

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