Control domain memory leak issue on Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 when GPU in use

Control domain memory leak issue on Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 when GPU in use

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Article ID: CTX265644

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Description

1. Any operation on VMs (start, shutdown, creating and removing snapshot etc.) with GPU are extremely slow
2. Citrix Hypervisor 8.0 freezing when GPU in use.

Environment

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Resolution

Increase the memory for the Citrix Hypervisor dom0 domain to at least 16 GB.

 Recommended specifications:

  • sysctl -w vm.extfrag_threshold=100
           or
  • sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes=102400