[Tmem-devel] tmem centos kernel from downloads or from patch 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5xen

[Dan Magenheimer]

> > The oom-killer may be invoked if the balloon driver does
> > not have the balloon driver code fragment that limits
> > the minimum memory.
> 
> I'm build from source rpm downloaded from oss.oracle.com and try it by
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.2.el5.tmemxen root=/dev/xvda1
> console=xvc0 tmem noselfshrink
> 
> But in domU oom-killer kills all programs. I think the patch to
> redhat/centos is bad and does not correct limit minimal memory to
> shrink.

I have not seen this behavior with this rpm.  Could you provide
more detail on the exact steps you used to get to this point?
Including things like Xen version number, how much physical
memory you have on the physical machine, vm.cfg file parameters
etc.?

Thanks,
Dan