Kais Belgaied wrote:
>
>> 3. Proposed Solution
>>
>> To solve this, we propose
>> increasing this to 1/4 of available memory which is the
>> limit that in addition, agpgart imposes.
>>
>> 4. Risks;
>>
>> There is the risk that increasing this resource may allow
>> the system to allocate too much memory, which may cause
>> the Solaris kernel to run out. The kernel is probably
>> not graceful when it runs out of memory.
>>
>> If increasing this resource is not acceptable, and having
>> the user manually increase the resource is not
>> acceptable, then either Sun or the Xorg community need to
>> change the Xorg Intel graphics drivers to use less memory
>> for Sun to incorporate these drivers into the Solaris
>> product.
>>
>> Increasing this resource affects both x86 and sparc,
>> although it is only currently needed on x86.
>
>
> quick question: When the RAM is shared with multiple OS instances
> (virtual machines),
> is 1/4 of all available memory a reasonable limit?
> Should this be 1/4 of RAM available to the domain (host or guest) ?
Since we're talking about physical resources here, my gut is that this
should be of the whole platform. Generally this would be driven out of
dom0, because dom0 is the one where the graphics device is configured.
But, I'll let the project team address it more clearly. Just my *gut*
response.
-- Garrett
>
> Kais.
