[Gllug] Xen - bit of a ramble

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon May 22 15:06:32 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:59:52PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Bursting of RAM would be really handy.. Say my server has 4GiB RAM and 4
> domUs each with 500MiB, that's only ~2GiB so it would be desirable
> to allow a domU that needed it to use more than 500MiB -- the RAM is
> sitting wasted otherwise.  If I loaded another domU and there wasn't
> enough RAM left for its committed amount then some should be taken
> from another domU that is overcommitted, and replaced with swap.

I'd really like to be able to overcommit RAM.

Rich.

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