From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerry Reno Subject: Re: Scrubbing free ram Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:53:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD8AE5A.2080505@verizon.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 04/28/2010 09:35 AM, BEI GUAN wrote: > Hello Keir, > > Thank you very much for your reply. As you said, I just change my > grub.conf as following. But it also did not work. The screen just > stopped when message "(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 4 VCPUs" was printed, > which is just before the message "Scrubbing Free RAM:". And then > system reboot. > > title Xen-4.0 (Linux kernel 2.6.31.13) > root (hd0,10) > kernel /boot/xen-4.0.gz no-bootscrub dom0_mem=1024M loglvl=all > guest_loglvl=all > module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.13 root=/dev/sda1 ro nomodeset > module /boot/initrd-2.6.31.13.img > > Thank you. Best wishes. > > Gavin Guan > I wonder if this is somehow related to similar problem I've been having using pv_ops dom0 2.6.32.10 on my AMD hardware. Finally I was able to track down where it showed BUG: soft lockup on the screen. Nothing seems to get rid of this soft lockup problem. I've been trying various different settings all day. -Gerry