[Xen-users] dom0-min-mem needed

[Jordi Espasa Clofent <jespasac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

After an undesirable episode of random rare reboots at dom0 level, I 
decided to increase the dedicated dom0 memory as following:
xen01:/# cat /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp | grep dom0-min-mem
# dom0-min-mem is the lowest memory level (in MB) dom0 will get down to.
# If dom0-min-mem=0, dom0 will never balloon out.
(dom0-min-mem 0)
xenjocs01:/# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep dom0
kernel          /boot/xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz dom0_mem=1024M

And the dom0 is rock-solid again. I use XEN 3.2.1 and Debian Etch as SO. 
Before the random reboots I've used only a dedicated 196MB for dom0. The 
actual "load" of dom0 is:
Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State 
Time(s)
Domain-0                                     0  1024     1     r----- 
2400.5
xen-game01                                  22   512     1     -b---- 
 184.0
xen-game04                                   1   512     1     -b---- 
-9176099843.7
xen-game05                                   2  1024     1     -b---- 
 401.5
xen-game06                                   3   512     1     -b---- 
 397.5
xen-game07                                   4   256     1     -b---- 
1085.7
xen-game09                                   5   512     1     -b---- 
 610.1
xen-game11                                   6   256     1     -b---- 
5997.6
xen-game12                                   7   256     1     -b---- 
 366.8
xen-game13                                   8   512     1     -b---- 
12316.5
xen-game14                                   9   512     1     -b---- 
  71.7
So, the next question is obvious
¿How to calculate the needed dom0 RAM according the domUs total RAM to 
manage? I'ts clear that only 196MB was not enough to manage the domUs.
PD. ¿Anybody knows what is -9176099843.7 entry (xen-game04 domU) in 
Time(s) column?
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Thanks,
Jordi Espasa Clofent

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