Joshua Penix wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> 
>> Would it be possible to allocate some more memory to the VM without
>> breaking anything?  I realize it would require a bounce of the image.
> 
> No.  I already tried this. :)  No matter how much I assign it in Xen, it
> refuses to see more than ~900MB.  I have no clue why.
> 

The kernel probably doesn't have HIMEM enabled. I have 1GB RAM in my
system. From my own running kernel, extracted from dmesg:

[snip]
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f5520

[snip]

It looks like you are restricted to the LOWMEM limit.

Gus

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