[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#640500: Bug#640500: Bug#640500: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64: xend invokes oomkiller and reboots machine when creating DomU's

[Thomas Goirand]

On 09/08/2011 01:44 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:54:32AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>                 echo "
>> # Start dom0 with less RAM
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT=\"dom0_mem=512M\"
>> " >>/etc/default/grub
>>
>> Then either run update-grub2 or dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (and of course
>> reboot...). If you do that, I'm sure your troubles will go away. You
>> shouldn't be running big software in the dom0 anyway. I always done that
>> because of habits from running older Xen (since 2.0.7), and because I've
>> seen issues with the dom0 ballooning out. To me, ballooning the memory
>> of dom0 is more a desktop feature than for a server.
>>
>> I believe this bug should be closed, because that's not really an issue
>> with Xen (but more with the way the Linux dom0 kernel works). I'll let
>> Bastian decide though.
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
> 
> Related link / dom0_mem:
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> 
> -- Pasi

Hi,

This is an "Immutable Page", which I guess means read only. Do you know
how we could add the info about grub2 in Debian, with what I wrote above?

Cheers,

Thomas