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Bug#645052: kernel only recognizes 32G of memory



On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 08:26 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 08:46 +0300, Dmitry Musatov wrote:
> >  The config option XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY controls how much memory a
> > Xen instance is seeing. The default for 64bit is 32GB, which is the
> > reason that m2.4xlarge Amazon EC2 instances only report this amount of
> > memory.
> >  Please set this limit to 70GB as there is a known restriction for
> > t1.micro instances at about 80GB.
> >  Similar bug exists and Ubuntu where it's already fixed
> > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ec2/+bug/667796)
> 
> Is this the sort of change we can consider making in a stable update?
> I'm not at all sure, although my gut feeling is that it would be safe.
[...]

I think so.  But what is the trade-off?  There must be some reason why
this isn't set to however many TB the kernel can support.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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