That did the trick, thanks Mark :-) -Christian
Mark Johnson wrote: > Christian Smith wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am running nevada 79 BFU'ed to 82. The machine is a Ultra 20 with 4GB >> memory. I have several Windows XP domU's configured and registered. >> When ever I try to start the fourth domain I get an out of memory exception: >> >> Not enough memory is available, and dom0 cannot be shrunk any further >> >> Each of my domains only uses 256 so I thought there would be sufficient >> memory for 4 :-/ >> >> I am also using ZFS (maybe this is causing problems?) and have tried >> using the kernel flag: >> >> dom0_mem=2048M >> >> Any ideas? >> > > > When using zfs on dom0, you should do the following... > > > > Normally, if you have zfs, you should set dom0_mem > to >= 2G. > kernel$ /boot/$ISADIR/xen.gz com1=9600,8n1 console=com1 dom0_mem=2g > > > You should also limit the amount of memory can give away. > if you set dom0_mem to 2g. You should set the minimal > amount of memory for dom0 to 2000. > > svccfg -s xvm/xend setprop config/dom0-min-mem=2000 > svcadm refresh xvm/xend;svcadm restart xvm/xend > > > Limit the size of the arc. > > echo "set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x10000000" >> /etc/system > > > If your using a disk file (vs a zvol) on a zfs filesystem, > you should set the recordsize for that fs to 8k. zvols > already default to 8k. > > zfs set recordsize=8k rpool/guests > > > > > MRJ > > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
