Re: xen crashes when DomU uses X11, after a while

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 03:06:52PM +0100, Michael Kell Jensen wrote:
> Hi i have setup a netbsd dom0 in xen
>
> uname -a for the
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> NetBSD construction_xen.micrun.net 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu  
> Jul 30 00:08:07 UTC 2009  
> builds%b7.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/amd64/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
>  
> amd64

This is not a Xen kernel

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>
>
> When booting into a xen Dom0, Netbsd amd64.
> and starting up a Gui environemnt, it runs fine for a while, but after  
> some short time, it get slow and then freezes.
> I "heard" that this could be because im using the modular xorg. from  
> pkgsrc. But i can't find a reference to that anymore.
> When not using the xen hypervisor(?), i got no problems.
>
> There nothing untowards in the Xorg.o.log file. (ie. no messages except  
> for normal startup messages).
>
> So does anyone have a clue as where to look?

Could you run top(1) and monitor memory usage ? It could be that the
dom0 runs out of memory.

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