On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 17:00:01 -0500
Chris Laprise <tas...@posteo.net> wrote:

> On 2/3/19 7:41 AM, Plex wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 10:41:22 AM UTC, Hugo Riebmann
> > wrote:  
> >> Chris Laprise:  
> >>> I wrote a script to condense the info with a sum of the total
> >>> amount used:
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-scripts/blob/master/system-stats-xen  
> >>
> >> Thank you! My shell-foo is not that strong.
> >>  
> >>> The xentop command will show you memory stats for dom0 and all
> >>> the rest.  
> >>
> >> Yes, I know. The issue here is plain usability / clarity of the
> >> qubes domain widget. It shows a list of VMs and used resources, so
> >> I'd expect it to show _all_ used resources. It doesn't, since
> >> dom0-resources are missing. My question here is how to show those
> >> resources without adding clutter / confusion?
> >>
> >> Right now my idea would be to simply add dom0. I don't like it
> >> because it seems to add unnecessary clutter and confusion, since
> >> dom0 can't behave like other VMs in that list. So I hope for a
> >> better solution here. 
> >>> As for making more room on an 8GB system [...]  
> >> Tbh I think this should be part of the doc. Anybody expert enough
> >> to write a pull request?
> >>
> >> sincerely
> >>    GammaSQ  
> > 
> > I probably could, however im struggling to get it to work. got
> > dom0_mem=min:1024M and dom0_mem=max:1536M in /etc/default/grub, did
> > grub2 install and verified new parameters appear
> > in /boot/grub2/menu . did dracut -f.  verified the new kernel line
> > at boot time (both values present and correct) but dom0 still seems
> > to chew up 4Gb regardless, according to free -m and xentop  
> 
> Assuming your system uses grub, I think the place to check would be
> in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. Or you could press 'e' at the grub menu at
> boot time to see if the parameters are correct.
> 
> OTOH, its possible it doesn't use grub (I think for UEFI boot) in
> which case I don't know where the parameters go.
> 
> 

In my system, it's "/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.cfg".

The initial mount path might be different for other installations.

Mike.

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