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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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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