Re: dom0 memory and HVM

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

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:39:30PM -0400, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> I'm trying to determine how much memory is reasonable for my NetBSD
> 5.1_RC2 dom0 when I am going to be running a number of HVM domU
> systems. I have it running with 256MB now but I see the qemu-dm
> processes taking a lot of memory and top indicates very little free
> memory (somewhere between 30MB and 2MB most of the time).

What do the other numbers looks like ?
qemu-dm shows a large memory size, but I believe most of this memory
is from the domU's pool, or maybe xen itself (i.e. it doesn't eat
dom0's memory).

On a HVM-capable system I gave 640Mb to dom0, but more than 400Mb are
used for the file cache ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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