Re: [Xen-devel] testing the balloon driver - Rik van Riel - com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

8 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-develRe: [Xen-devel] testing the balloon d...

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Keir Fraser	21 Oct 2004 09:15
Mark A. Williamson	21 Oct 2004 09:57
Rik van Riel	21 Oct 2004 11:03
Rik van Riel	21 Oct 2004 14:26
Mark Williamson	21 Oct 2004 14:43
Rik van Riel	21 Oct 2004 14:51
Ian Pratt	21 Oct 2004 15:05
Rik van Riel	21 Oct 2004 18:21

Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] testing the balloon driver
From:	Rik van Riel (ri...@redhat.com)
Date:	10/21/2004 02:51:13 PM
List:	com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Mark Williamson wrote:

Eek! I'd found previously that yum was rather resource hungry but didn't know it was *that* hungry!!! No wonder my machine at home runs slowly :-)

I've seen yum eat up to around 200 MB memory.

It seems you were quite cruel with the balloon driver, so I'm glad the driver itself didn't cause an explosion ;-)

Amazingly the system is still running. I'm resizing both of the VMs by up to half their maximum size every second, which seems to interact "quite poorly"[1] with the VM. I'm currently wondering whether to find a way to improve this, or whether it's just a "doctor, it hurts" thing.

cheers,

Rik [1] yes, this is quite an understatement