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Re: [Xen-users] swap size on dom0

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] swap size on dom0
From: Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:48:23 +0100
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Yes that sound a lot too much. 1st point i would make is to pass dom0_mem=xxxxx 
where xxxxx is number of kilobytes to assign to dom0 (not including domU's) 128 
megabytes should be more than enough (xxxxx=128000). 2nd point as a general 
rule i find its then good to use same amount of swap space as i have ram in 
that case would be 128 megabytes. I have heard in the past it used to be 
suggested 2x ram for swap but that much is not often needed. In general a dom0 
should not require so much ram because it doesn't as a rule do anything but 
serve domU's. 128 megabytes of each should be plenty.

Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
I have installed Xen on top of an Ubuntu Feisty Server Edition.
The system has 4Gig of RAM.  Feisty by default sets up a
 swap partition 2x~3x times the size of the RAM,
which in this case ended up being nearly 10G.

Is this much swap space necessary for running dom0?


TIA,
Tomoki Taniguchi

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