From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: chris <tknchris@gmail.com>
Cc: Debian Xen Team <pkg-xen-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Abnormal memory usage of dom0 under Squeeze leading to crash
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:42:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299318168.13328.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=WN_7FX-k1FV61FJ_f-+asBXj49Fh8fGdhXRYd@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 20:58 -0500, chris wrote:
> I would like to just second this. I have 3 hosts running squeeze and
> am running into that issue as well. It seems after i start enough
> guests to leave dom0 with less than 1gb i get OOM going crazy killing
> xend and very shortly after a crash of dom0 which leads to reboot.
> Prior to Xen4 I had similarly bad experiences with memory ballooning,
> most with regard to any attempt to balloon down.
So this isn't a regression then?
It is unlikely that the version of Xen would be a factor here but rather
it is the version of the domain 0 kernel which would matter.
> I figured I'd give it
> a go on 4 and it seems I will be going back to limiting dom0's ram
> from the cmdline.
That's always the safest option IMHO.
Thanks,
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-05 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 5:37 Abnormal memory usage of dom0 under Squeeze leading to crash Thomas Goirand
2011-02-03 8:34 ` Bastian Blank
2011-02-03 9:28 ` [Pkg-xen-devel] " Thomas Goirand
2011-02-03 9:35 ` Ian Campbell
2011-03-05 1:58 ` chris
2011-03-05 9:42 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2011-03-05 14:04 ` [Pkg-xen-devel] " chris
[not found] ` <20110203102935.GA28521@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
2011-02-23 7:26 ` [Pkg-xen-devel] Strange behavior when doing xm mem-set Domain-0 (was: Abnormal memory usage of dom0 under Squeeze leading to crash) Thomas Goirand
2011-02-23 8:17 ` Ian Campbell
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