Making the agent property work (host.reserved.mem.mb) would be awesome! On labs 
you can then set it to something low. 

Let me know if you need help with testing!

Thanks, Remi 

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> On 29 Aug 2015, at 07:49, Erik Weber <terbol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Make it configurable to enable/disable the check? Or even the size.
> 
> For labs etc you might not have or want that much to spare.
> 
> 
> Erik
> 
> Den lørdag 29. august 2015 skrev Josh Harshman <josh.harsh...@intrinium.com>
> følgende:
> 
>> Wido -
>> Looks like the problem resides in the logic that does the detection of the
>> host resources.  It looks like most, if not all, the KVM host detection
>> occurs in the LibvirtComputingResource class.  Here I can modify it so it
>> will take the value stored in dom0MinMem into account when calculating the
>> ram available.
>> 
>> I've forked the repo and am working on a fix.
>> Does anyone have anything to add?  Suggestions?
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl <javascript:;>>
>> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 12:38 AM
>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <javascript:;>
>> Subject: Re: Discuss reserving memory on KVM hypervisors ref:
>> CLOUDSTACK-8678
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Josh Harshman
>> Cloud Engineer
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>> Intrinium
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>>> On 27-08-15 18:36, Josh Harshman wrote:
>>> In a KVM cluster, CloudStack sees 100% of the compute node's RAM and
>> treats it as allocatable space which eventually leads to OOM killing guests.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There is an agent property named host.reserved.mem.mb which is able to
>> be set in the agent.properties file and passed to the management server.
>> This value is stored as dom0MinMem, however, it appears to be ignored.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If we could tweak the host capacity calculation and have it take this
>> into account, I believe that would be ideal.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Side note: the variable dom0MinMem is declared as an int and can be
>> overflowed. Suggested change would be make it a long and add a check
>> especially if we are going to make this a configurable parameter.
>> 
>> Yes, that seems like a sane thing to do. We should be able to say that
>> eg 8GB of memory should stay available for the HV.
>> 
>> Don't know where the problem lies though. A PR is welcome :)
>> 
>> Wido
>> 
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