Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Abnormal memory usage of dom0 under Squeeze leading to crash

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Hi Bastian,

Thanks for your quick reply.

On 02/03/2011 04:34 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Way not enough information. You are actually balooning the dom0 down?

using "xm mem-set Domain-0 800" yes...

> Please provide all informations. xm dmesg, the kernel log, xm info.

How, if the server reboots when I do it?

>> With both of the above, it's going to be easy to reproduce.
> 
> Nope. Works fine here.

You can run the script...

> There will be no fix for the initial release.

Yup, it seems too late for me as well.

> 
>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>> ||/ Name                                    Version                     Description
> [...]
> 
> This looks more like a workstation then a minimal vm host.

There's really the minimal: smartmontools, mdadm, postfix (to send out
alerts), bind, and that's about it. What exactly do you think shouldn't
be there?

Thomas Goirand