[CentOS-virt] Unable to use all the memory available

Tue Feb 21 19:28:41 UTC 2012
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Tue, February 21, 2012 02:23, Henry Addington wrote:
> Hello:
>
> As you can see from xm info below, we have almost 200GB of
> memory in our
> server running CentOS 5.2. But, we can't seem to allocate
> all the memory.
> For some reason, the total memory that can be allocated
> maxes out at 188.4
> GB. None of the VMs has hit its own max-mem limit. Even
> when we set one of
> the VM's memory so the total is above 188.4 GB, its memory
> allocation stops
> when the total memory allocation reaches 188.4 GB.
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>

What is the hardware limit for the server?

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