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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH v2] ts-windows-install: Bump RAM
 from 512M to 1536M
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:25:54 +0100
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On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 12:21 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sadly we lack a proper infrastructure for handing guest memory size
> and fitting it into the host.  We don't currently even have in our
> database the amount of RAM the host has.
> 
> The recommended minimum for Windows is 2Gby.  But we have (in the
> Cambridge instance) some hosts which only have 4Gby.  We allow 512 for
> dom0.  We need to leave some spare for Xen and other overheads.  So
> set this to 1536 (1.5Gby) which should fit even during localhost
> migration.
> 
> Later we may want to do something more sophisticated, like adjusting
> this to 2048 if the host has enough, or only running the test on
> bigger hosts, or something.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> ---
> v2: 1536 not 1700.

The patch still says 1700..

A patch which said 1536 would be:
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

>     Mention migration in the commit message.
> ---
>  ts-windows-install |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ts-windows-install b/ts-windows-install
> index 7740ee6..bdedf2b 100755
> --- a/ts-windows-install
> +++ b/ts-windows-install
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ our $ho= selecthost($whhost);
>  
>  our $gho;
>  
> -our $ram_mb=    512;
> +our $ram_mb=   1700;
>  our $disk_mb= 10000;
>  
>  our $guesthost= 'win.guest.osstest';