[libvirt] Xen and out of memory stuff, blocks libvirtd

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Thu Oct 9 01:32:30 UTC 2008


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Daniel P. Berrange schreef:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:29:29PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
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>> Daniel P. Berrange schreef:
>>> This is nothing todo with XenD - the error shows fork() failed due
>>> to lack of OS memory. Whether running XenD or not, if the kernel runs
>>> out of memory you're doomed. You need more RAM allocated to your host.
>> If XenD eats 90% of the available memory (at that time 256MB) I am
>> seriously doomed aswell.
> 
> Whatever the cause, its not a libvirt bug. If you think its wrong that
> XenD is eating 90% of your ram, then speak to the Xen developers - we
> can't help fix XenD here.

Yes you can by providing a great technology preview for the alternate
technique where XenD is not required anymore.


But I'll have patience,


Stefan
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