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From: Patrick Scharrenberg <pittipatti@web.de>
Subject: Re: xen 3 dom0 eats memory - ME TOO
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:26:34 +0100
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Keir Fraser schrieb:
>> I'll add free memory to mrtg and see what that uncovers...
>
> Looks like somethign allocates lots of 64-byte buffers and never frees
> them. I don't currently know what is doing those allocations. It might
> be worth adding tracing to kmalloc().
I  changed my configuration in the following way and now no memory gets
lost.

I leave the physical eth0 as it is when the machine boots, create a
bridge which holds all vif's of the domUs.
So I have no vif for dom0 and use the physical ethernet interface directly.
Turn on masquerading for eth0 like I did before.

Now it works.

It seems that the "virtualisazion" of the ethernet interface is
responsible for the troubles.


Patrick