Mike Bowie wrote:
I remember having strange issues with a 4GB ram dell 2950 and xen (3.1.x/i386). The dom0 kernel would segfault unless I reduce the amount of ram seen by the xen kernel using mem=3072M on the xen.gz boot line (xen.gz did see something like 3200M as it's a 32bit kernel). A supermicro server also with 4GB ram didn't have troubles with the same xen and dom0 kernels.
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It would appear that adding the mem restriction to Xen did the trick. I
I had similar problems with our Dell PowerEdge 860 with 4 GB RAM. That "fix" really SHOULD be documented in our howto (http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html)...
Martti