On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:20:46PM +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 02:24:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > kvm_alloc_stage2_pgd has to do an order 9 allocation, ie. 512 > > contiguous pages I think. > > > > This often leads to problems running qemu when memory is relatively > > low -- eg. if you have one VM running, a healthy number of host > > applications, and perhaps "just" 4GB free; then you decide to run the > > libguestfs test suite. > > > > Any suggestions how to deal with this? > > > I'm not familiar with the libguestfs test suite, but are you saying you > have 4GB of free physical memory and when you start your first VM then > you get this error? That sounds unlikely to me. No, it runs hundreds of appliances (not all at the same time). Some fail. It seems to be a memory fragmentation issue, rather than the absolute free memory. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
