Hi Susan,
Did you provide dom0_mem config to xen kernel? If not given, xen0 will eat 
almost all the memory.
I often set:
kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=262144
Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康
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>Subject: [Xen-users] default dom0 memory size is very large
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>> I am running xen (changeset 9029 on SLES10 beta 6) on x86_64 with 8 procs
>and 8 GB memory. When the system boots, xm list and xentop show that dom0
>is given almost all of the 8 GB of memory, leaving only 136 MB free.
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered this? Shouldn't the default memory size be
>small to allow the creation of multiple domU's?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sue Krysan
>> Linux Systems Group
>> Unisys Corporation
>> (610) 648-2494
>> (Net) 385-2494
>>
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