From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= Subject: Re: suggested domain0 memory size Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:49:40 +0100 Message-ID: <41BCAEE4.9040601@fzu.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>Hi, >>what is minimal recommended memory reservation for domain0? It won't run >>any services apart from sshd and xend and will provide files from /home >>(ext3) to other domains as their block devices. Machine is 466MHz >>Celeron with 256MB of RAM, UDMA/33 IDE interface, and will run about 5 >>other domains, so less is more ;-). > > > Boot it with 64MB and then use the balloon driver to crank it > down a bit. Give it a swap file to be on the safe side. Just a small question - if I use `xm balloon Domain-0 64`, `xm info` reports correct amount of memory as free, but `free` says that domain0 has still $original_memory_size total, but used memory grows up, is it correct? (total, used, free, shared, buffers, cached) # free | grep Mem Mem: 116692 29056 87636 0 460 9600 # xm info | grep memory memory : 255 free_memory : 126 # xm balloon Domain-0 64 # free | grep Mem Mem: 116692 83536 33156 0 460 9600 # xm info | grep memory memory : 255 free_memory : 179 TIA, j. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/