[Gllug] Memory Usage

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Tue Mar 11 11:17:19 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:48:15PM +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> We had a strange case where a 12G machine with a xen kernel, and 5 x
> 2GB VMs appeared not to release the 10G of RAM once the vms had been
> stopped.  I had to reboot the machine to get that memory back.

Just to add to what Dan said, you can allocate memory back to the dom0
by doing:

  virst setmem 0 <kb>

where <kb> is the total amount of memory to allocate to dom0 (not the
increment, but the total afterwards).

Rich.

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