Re: xm info showing too much free ram

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> 
> On 30 Mar 2006, at 19:43, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> 
> >My dom0 has 2g ram allocated, and I have 2.5 G Ram physically in my 
> >machine.
> >I needed more Ram in domU so I did a
> 
> If you don't start your domU with a 'mem=2G' or similar as a boot 
> parameter then the domU will be unable to increase its memory 
> allocation beyond its initial boot-time allocation. In this case, 'xm 
> list' is lying to you -- it tells you what memory target the tools has 
> asked the domU to aim for, not what the domU is currently using. :-)
> 
> That's my guess anyway -- the free memory reported by 'xm info' is 
> definitely the truth, so 'xm list' is lying and that's probably the 
> reason why. Take a look in the domU and see what it thinks. Also in the 
> domU, look at the contents of /proc/xen/balloon.

Yes, that's right -- xm list shows the configured or requested memory, not the
amount it's actually using.  Personally, I'd consider that a bug -- feel free
to file it.

Ewan.