Re: Unable to use all physical memory

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:37:57 +0100
Torbjörn Granlund <tg%gmplib.org@localhost> wrote:

> I've used NetBSD/Xen for perhaps 5 years, at least 3 different major
> versions of xenkernel/xentools combined with NetBSD 6.x and 7.0.
> 
> Recently, when using Xen 4.5 and xl, I no longer can make use of all
> physical RAM.  This is a show-stopper problem for my usage.

Hi,

You need to set autoballoon=0 in /usr/pkg/etc/xen/xl.conf if your dom0
has a fixed amount of RAM on the boot command line.
(I don't know why this is the case, but it's the same for Linux dom0.)

Kind regards,
-Tobias