Re: [Xen-users] out of memory with xen

[Maarten Vanraes <maarten@xxxxx>]

wont the caching require more memory anyway, and won't it start to swap and 
ultimately start to kill processes?

Sincerely,

Op woensdag 27 juni 2007 10:04, schreef Arie Goldfeld:
> You could use dom0_mem grub parameter to restrict the size of RAM dom0
> occupies; it looks somethings like this:
>
> kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=400000
>
> On 6/27/07, Maarten Vanraes <maarten@xxxxx> wrote:
> > our xen server has 8GB RAM.
> >
> > dom0 is not doing anything, but has cached about 4.9GB of the ram, which
> > results in failure to create new hosts.
> >
> > i'm using file based storage, and i've read in the mailing list archive
> > about
> > the problem being /dev/loop being used internally in xen.
> >
> > is there a way to flush this cache? is there already a fix for the
> > extreme caching of these devices?
> >
> > I see that lvm is a possible workaround, but i'd rather not do this right
> > now.
> > Plus it is not so easy to convert 500GB into lvm...
> >
> > any solutions yet?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > --
> > Maarten Vanraes
> > BA NV: IT & Security
> >
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-- 
Maarten Vanraes
BA NV: IT & Security

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