On September 29, 9:55 am Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It certainly does Mark (help, that is). I would like to learn more
> > about this balloon driver, which could make things very managable. Is
> > there any documentation or tutorial-like info about?
>
> The balloon driver hasn't been forward ported from 2.4 to 2.6 --
> it's on the todo list (it'll probably work unmodified modulo
> changes to the way proc fs works).
>
For people that still use linux 2.4 (like me) is there a tutorial or some
documentation about the ballon driver ?
> > I have been wondering why my Domain-0 machine hasn't been using swap!
> > :o) So I should just dump that partition?
>
> If you've configured swap, domain 0 should be using just like any
> normal linux kernel. The balloon driver works in dom0 just like
> any other domain.
It seems logical, but due to the fact that only a few process are running
ind dom0, swap file don't need to be huge is it ?
>
> > I suppose I'll have to be very rigorous when
> > it comes to keeping that domain lean yes? (Especially as I only have
> > 4GB to play with!). Out side of basic OS functionality, are there any
> > Xen or LVM2 related processes I have to account for when setting the
> > amount of RAM I can use for Domain-0?
>
> -xen linux kernels don't have any special processes that take any
> noticeable extra resources.
>
> In domain 0 you'll have to worry about the footprint of xend, but
> it's not that big.
>
When starting with xen one or two month ago, i've created a dom0 with only
32 Mo of ram, and when i launched xend, it was so slow that i tought i had
a problem.
I didn't take time to investigate and didn't remember how much memory was
used and if the system was swaping or not.
I just have done a test now with my current xen putting 32768 Mo on xen
command line (not the kernel line in grub).
And the system booted a bit slower and i suspect that durring the launch of
xend it has done some swap.
free return this just after the boot :
mat@zeus:/$ free
 total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 32768 28572 4196 0 0 7172
-/+ buffers/cache: 21400 11368
Swap: 506008 312 505696
Having this process:
 207 ? Ss 0:00 dhclient -e -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf
/var/
 253 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
 256 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/klogd
 261 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
 268 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
 274 ? S 0:00 xfrd
 275 ? S 0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start
 288 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
 327 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
 328 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
 329 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
 330 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
 331 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
 332 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
 333 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: mat [priv]
 335 ? R 0:00 sshd: mat@pts/0
 336 pts/0 Ss 0:00 -bash
 344 pts/0 R+ 0:00 ps ax
i guess i could reduce the number of getty and get rid of dhclient (the
adress of dom0 is a static one ...).
It was my 2cents thoughts ...
Matthieu
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