Paul Traylor
2006-Jul-25 16:04 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Xen high memory usage/X programs running poorly
''xm top'' shows Dom0 to be using 2846916k of memory (about 90.5 %) ''free -k'' shows Dom0 to be using 447192k of memory ''uname -r'' shows 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5xen0 X programs running over ssh are extremely slow (such as http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ and http://xenman.sourceforge.net/) to the point where they are mostly unusable. When using the non-xen kernel, X programs seem to run fine over ssh. I did a standard install of FC5. I changed the size of / to 20gb so that I could create other LV for the domUs. I installed the basic webserver package to start off with. I installed http://webmin.com/ to make it easier to configure the iptables, and switched ssh to use a different port. I then ran ''yum update'' and disabled SELinux by editing /etc/selinux/config and setting SELINUX=disabled. Lastly, I set ''DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen0'' in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and installed the xen kernel with ''yum install kernel-xen0'' as directed by http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 and rebooted. Am I missing something that is causing memory usage to be so high and causing X programs to run so poorly? Paul Traylor