From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "xm mem-set" be lowerboundondomX-min-mem Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:35:05 -0700 Message-ID: <4471F649.70203@us.ibm.com> References: <3fff45e9026898258afc2445c25d85c9@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4471B47A.E57C.0030.0@novell.com> <4a7c24c6870aa1e8619e99a32a90c8c6@cl.cam.ac.uk> <4471BC98.E57C.0030.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4471BC98.E57C.0030.0@novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ky Srinivasan Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Aravindh Puthiyaparambil List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ky Srinivasan wrote: >>>>On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 1:01 pm, in message > > <4a7c24c6870aa1e8619e99a32a90c8c6@cl.cam.ac.uk>, Keir Fraser > wrote: > > >>On 22 May 2006, at 17:54, Ky Srinivasan wrote: >> >> >>>Kier, >>> >>>The floor was chosen because we found the system to be unreliable >>>below that value (in the tests we did on sles 10). A floor I think > > is > >>>useful to have even if the value picked is a different one. >> >>192MB is on the high side isn't it? > > > We have a couple of bugs in our bugzilla where dom0 could not be > booted with memory set to 128 MB. I don't know what the right floor is, > but it has to be more than 128M. Under what circumstances was that the case, do you know? It doesn't seem like the normal default case, we've certainly not run into that one... thanks, Nivedita