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From: Simon Rowe <simon.rowe@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org, roddy.rodstein@mokumsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Is there an issue with turning off "scrubbing free RAM" on boot with Xen 4.1.3
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:39:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525667B9.9010309@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52559F56.3070901@mokumsolutions.com>


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On 09/10/13 19:24, Roddy Rodstein wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Thank you in advance for your support!
>
> Our HP Xen 4.1.3 servers have 1TB of RAM, each Xen servers take 20 
> minutes to boot largely due to the "scrub free RAM" phase. If/when we 
> have dom0 failures and HA kicks-in, we would like to reduce the boot 
> time to make the resource quickly available, perhaps using the 
> no-bootscrub attribute in grub.conf.
>
>
Malcolm's patch to parallelize scrubbing was posted recently

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-09/msg03171.html

I don't think it's been committed to xen-unstable yet,

Simon


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 18:24 Is there an issue with turning off "scrubbing free RAM" on boot with Xen 4.1.3 Roddy Rodstein
2013-10-10  6:27 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-10-10  8:39 ` Simon Rowe [this message]
2013-10-10  8:47 ` Ian Campbell
2013-10-10  9:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-10 22:25   ` Matt Wilson
2013-11-11 10:14     ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-11 10:33       ` Jan Beulich
2013-11-11 10:47         ` Ian Campbell

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