Re: Memory on dom0 xen host (etch)

["Javier Barroso" <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

I now can read it is like a 'bug' on memstat

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=47260

I suppose memstat is counting /proc/xen/privcmd , and perhaps I should
use xm top and not free.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 'memstat | sort -n' tell me at dom0 Xen machine:
>  71644k: PID  6538 (/usr/bin/python2.4)
> 1048576k: /proc/xen/privcmd 2600 6533 6540 17643
> 1491348k
>
> 1491348k is the total memory that memstat report.
>
> 'free' output is :
> free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        262144     241304      20840          0      12016      62220
> -/+ buffers/cache:     167068      95076
> Swap:       307192        692     306500
>
>
> Is it telling me about to have 1.5 G of RAM on my dom0 ?
>
> How do you interpret memstat output ?
>
> Should all our machines have the same RAM size as stated by memstat
> total memory output ?
>
> How do you interpret the difference between free and memstat ?
>
> Thanks you
>
> Debian Rocks!
>