Re: dom0 not seeing all of the assigned memory

[Henrik Olsson <henrik@fixme.se>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 19:55, David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net> wrote:
> On 22/02/12 22:19, Henrik Olsson wrote:
>> Hi, i'm having some trouble with assigning memory to my dom0.
>>
>> I've added "dom0_mem=8192M" to the xen command line yet "free -m"
>> reports only 5686MB total.
>
> [    0.000000] Freeing  6f000-100000 pfn range: 593920 pages freed
> [    0.000000] 1-1 mapping on 6f000->100000
> [    0.000000] Released 595312 pages of unused memory
>
> This accounts for most of your "missing" memory.  To get it back you
> need to adjust the balloon driver's target to the amount of memory you want.
>
> David

Hi, i'm not sure i understand..

I've configured /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp with:
(dom0-min-mem 8192)
(enable-dom0-ballooning no)

Shouldn't this disable ballooning? Or do i need to pass some parameter
somewhere?

Regards,
Henrik