Working more on troubleshooting, which is, as you might gather, an enormous chapter. I'm not saying that Xen doesn't work -- I'm just saying that you have to define 'work' carefully.
Anyway. Not that I am bothered. It's a lovely day.
Really, right now we're thinking about adding a bit on the vm.overcommit_memory and overcommit_ratio sysctls, and how they can be used to improve Xen's stability. The idea is that, if we make it impossible for the VM subsystem to overcommit memory, the oom-killer should never run. This will lead to improved stability, since the oom-killer has a regrettable habit of killing sshd.
We need to test that assertion, though, and that sounds suspiciously like work.
Anyway. Not that I am bothered. It's a lovely day.
Really, right now we're thinking about adding a bit on the vm.overcommit_memory and overcommit_ratio sysctls, and how they can be used to improve Xen's stability. The idea is that, if we make it impossible for the VM subsystem to overcommit memory, the oom-killer should never run. This will lead to improved stability, since the oom-killer has a regrettable habit of killing sshd.
We need to test that assertion, though, and that sounds suspiciously like work.
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