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Re: [Xen-users] Guidelines for Dom0 memory

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To:	"Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-users] Guidelines for Dom0 memory
From:	Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date:	Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:56:12 +0200
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:51:21AM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> William Man schrieb:
> 
> >My box runs Debian Sarge with xen 2.0.7, LVM and 6 guest domains and seems
> >to be happy with just 64M.  Running top reveals that it is using zero swap
> >and still has 30MB of free ram.
> >However, my host domain is purely used for hosting xen and nothing else.
> > 
> >
> 
> I used to run my dom0s with 128MB (also Debian Sarge and Xen 2.0.7), but 
> I am still using snapshots with LVM and lvm told me that memory is too 
> low until I reserved 256 MB for dom0.
> 

Hmm.. so you have lvm snapshots working OK ?

Which kernel? Any additional patches (for lvm) ?

Many people have problems (crashes etc) with linux lvm snapshots..

> Dirk
> 

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