[CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen -- 8GB missing?

2008-07-12 Thread JJB
Hello,

Last night I upgraded a server to CentOS 5.2.  The server has 16GB of
RAM.  Now that it's running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen only 8GB is reported to
exist.

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:  8818688 kB
MemFree:   3730124 kB
Buffers:202004 kB
Cached:4086788 kB
SwapCached:  0 kB
Active:1551480 kB
Inactive:  2958196 kB
HighTotal:   0 kB
HighFree:0 kB
LowTotal:  8818688 kB
LowFree:   3730124 kB
SwapTotal: 8388600 kB
SwapFree:  8388600 kB
Dirty:7348 kB
Writeback:   0 kB
AnonPages:  220788 kB
Mapped:  46948 kB
Slab:   137404 kB
PageTables:  29012 kB
NFS_Unstable:0 kB
Bounce:  0 kB
CommitLimit:  12797944 kB
Committed_AS:   756072 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:  5004 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359733235 kB

However, dmesg appears to report something else:

# dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 15506152k/15899468k available (2417k kernel code, 384480k
reserved, 1350k data, 176k init)

I looked in the messages file for complaints and didn't see anything
that strikes me as unusual.

How much memory is available?  Is this a known issue?


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Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen -- 8GB missing?

2008-07-12 Thread Victor Padro
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:11 PM, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,

 Last night I upgraded a server to CentOS 5.2.  The server has 16GB of
 RAM.  Now that it's running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen only 8GB is reported to
 exist.

 # cat /proc/meminfo
 MemTotal:  8818688 kB
 MemFree:   3730124 kB
 Buffers:202004 kB
 Cached:4086788 kB
 SwapCached:  0 kB
 Active:1551480 kB
 Inactive:  2958196 kB
 HighTotal:   0 kB
 HighFree:0 kB
 LowTotal:  8818688 kB
 LowFree:   3730124 kB
 SwapTotal: 8388600 kB
 SwapFree:  8388600 kB
 Dirty:7348 kB
 Writeback:   0 kB
 AnonPages:  220788 kB
 Mapped:  46948 kB
 Slab:   137404 kB
 PageTables:  29012 kB
 NFS_Unstable:0 kB
 Bounce:  0 kB
 CommitLimit:  12797944 kB
 Committed_AS:   756072 kB
 VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
 VmallocUsed:  5004 kB
 VmallocChunk: 34359733235 kB

 However, dmesg appears to report something else:

 # dmesg | grep Memory
 Memory: 15506152k/15899468k available (2417k kernel code, 384480k
 reserved, 1350k data, 176k init)

 I looked in the messages file for complaints and didn't see anything
 that strikes me as unusual.

 How much memory is available?  Is this a known issue?


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I think there was a topic like this about a month ago, please search the
list archieves.

Cheers.

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Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen -- 8GB missing?

2008-07-12 Thread Ruslan Sivak

Victor Padro wrote:



On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 7:11 PM, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello,

Last night I upgraded a server to CentOS 5.2.  The server has 16GB of
RAM.  Now that it's running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen only 8GB is
reported to
exist.
...snip...

How much memory is available?  Is this a known issue?


I think there was a topic like this about a month ago, please search 
the list archieves.


Cheers.


In case he didn't find it, I was the one that posted the original 
issue.  Turns out that Xen allocates memory to domU's and doesn't 
release it back to dom0 even if you stop the VM's.  Top only reports the 
memory available to dom0.  The xen tools will show the proper amount of 
memory. 


Russ
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