Re: Re: Re: AW: Re: AW: Load increase after memory upgrade?

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:22:34PM +0200, Carsten Schiers wrote:
> >a). What is the version of Dom0? Are you swapping that out? If so, and 
> you
> >want the latests then the next step is to do:
> 
> Dom0 is jeremy's git xen/stable-2.6.32.x in 64 Bit. DomUs are 32 Bit. 
> Shall I 
> experimently change that to what you recommended?

Lets first do the c) experiment as that will likely explain your load average increase.

> 
> 
> >c). If you want to see if the fault here lies in the bounce buffer 
> being used more
> >often in the DomU b/c you have 8GB of memory now and you end up using 
> more pages
> >past 4GB (in DomU), I can cook up a patch to figure this out. But an 
> easier way is
> >to just do (on the Xen hypervisor line): mem=4G and that will make 
> think you only have
> >4GB of physical RAM.  If the load comes back to the normal "amount" 
> then the likely
> >culprit is that and we can think on how to fix this.
> 
> So I will reboot with the a.m. parameter, but that's not possible right 
> now. I 
> will keep you informed. Eventually I can combine that with the test a) 
> on Thursday.
> 
> Carsten.