From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Roddy Rodstein <roddy.rodstein@mokumsolutions.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: Is there an issue with turning off "scrubbing free RAM" on boot with Xen 4.1.3
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:42:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52567676.3010102@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52559F56.3070901@mokumsolutions.com>
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On 09/10/13 19:24, Roddy Rodstein wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> Thank you in advance for your support!
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> 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.
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> Could you please share your comments about turning of RAM scrubbing,
> i.e. have you seen any consequences, security issues and/or threats,
> red flags, etc...?
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> We have asked the same question at the commercially supported Xen
> forums, i.e. Oracle and Citrix, as well as to each aforementioned
> support team, and have not received a lick of meaningful information.
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> Respectfully,
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> Roddy
>
In the Xen model, domains are responsible for clearing any sensitive
data they have out of memory before shutdown.
The bootscrub is a preventative measure to ensure that after a crash,
stale domain information is cleared from RAM before that RAM is reused
for a new VM.
If this is not a concern for you, then you can easily turn bootscrub off
by adding "no-bootscrub" to the Xen command line.
~Andrew
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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
2013-10-10 8:47 ` Ian Campbell
2013-10-10 9:42 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
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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