Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686
Severity: important
I belive current version of xen (as domU) kernel for debian report free memory
wrong: system reports lots of free memory, but acutally all memory is used up.
Condition to reproduce:
Xen evnironment, maxmem is very large (10-20GiB memory), mem relativly low
(800-900MiB).
Booted domU reports about 500MiB free, but if we try to use it, we will get
swap (or oom/MemoryError is swap disabled) right after about 120MiB.
I test this behavior in newer gentoo/SUSE kernel and they in same condition
show that about 750MiB is used (this match experemental data).
I belive, this somehow related to difference in drivers/xen/balloon.c,
gentoo/SUSE version have some lines like
totalram_pages--;
(in balloon_append() function)
and
totalram_pages++;
(in balloon_retrieve() function)
Those lines are in Gentoo kernel (linux-2.6.34-xen) but absent in Debian
(linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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