Re: RAM for Dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:23:09PM +1000, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
> Hi,
> can anyone here tell me from experience how much RAM one should leave
> to Dom0 to be able to do the usual maintenance without having to
> reconfigure the XEN domains and rebooting? I have 2GB in my server and
> was thinking about leaving about 384MB to the Dom0. Is that enough? Or
> should it be 512MB at least? Is anyone running a setup with 384MB or
> less for the Dom0?

My 4.0/i386 dom0 are running with 128MB RAM and are happy. This is without
HVM guests though; for HVM qemu-dm eats some more ram, I'd recommend at
last 512MB in this case (I use 640MB myself).

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