[fixed] Re: GELI encrypted root and FreeBSD dom0 ; libxl cannot allocate memory

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Mon Apr 13 10:16:42 UTC 2015


Hello,

El 13/04/15 a les 12.06, Hannes Mehnert ha escrit:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> On 04/13/2015 10:52, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> You probably need to increase the amount of allowed wired mappings
>> in the kernel. You can set it to unlimited with the following:
> 
>> # sysctl -w vm.max_wired=-1
> 
>> Or if you want to make it permanent:
> 
>> # echo 'vm.max_wired=-1' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
>> This is because the Xen tools make extensive use of wired memory
>> in order to interact with the hypervisor.
> 
> I have this in /etc/sysctl.conf. The output of `sysctl vm.max_wired`
> also reports:
> vm.max_wired: -1

Can you trace the process in order to know what's failing?

# ktrace xl list
# kdump

And paste the output here?

Thanks.


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