From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Questions about certain Xen limits and features Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:30:44 +0000 Message-ID: <49145F24.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> References: <7ECBFE60CB7F02478CDDDE40C985813A0DF9B884@USEA-EXCH4.na.uis.unisys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser , Bruce A Vessey Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> Keir Fraser 07.11.08 15:22 >>> >> (2a) What's the largest host memory that anybody has tested? >> (2b) What's the expected host memory limit (if somebody was able to >> configure a system that large)? > >I think 256GB has been tested. Theoretically we're good up to 1TB, and we >could expand beyond even that without too much trouble. 1Tb has been tested recently by IBM. However, giving anything beyond 512Gb to Dom0 (or any other domain) is expected have issues, unless the kernel used is one that has fixes to deal with that (the patch I had submitted for that apparently caused some trouble in the 2.6.18 tree). The tools also aren't prepared to deal with DomU-s larger than 512Gb, I believe. Jan