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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.
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> 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.

Daniel
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