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Re: [Xen-devel] extremely long xend startup time causing /etc/init.d/xen

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] extremely long xend startup time causing /etc/init.d/xendomains not to run?
From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:13:14 -0500
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* Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx> [2005-09-14 13:55]:
> I've started to notice the following issue, and would like to see if anyone
> else has seen it before digging too deep.
> 
> When rebooting a xen system that has auto starting domains, they mostly
> don't start.
> 
> On one system that tries to start 5 DomU instances, it appears only the last
> one (alphabetically) ends up starting.  On the system with only 2 DomU
> instances, nothing starts.  Neither of these are very speedy machines (700 &
> 800 Mhz respectively), so a timing problem with /etc/init.d/xend starting is
> probably exacerbated in this environment.
> 
> Sanity confirmation on this would be really useful, so if anyone else has
> seen this please also post back. :)

I've seen this a lot when working bug#197 As the number of entries in
/var/lib/xenstored/store/domain/$uuid increase, the time for xend to get
up and running increases.  When I had over 500 stale uuid directories in
the store, it took several *minutes* for xend to full come up, and
/var/lib/xenstored was several hundred MB.

The only workaround I know is to:

/etc/init.d/xend stop
killall xenstored xenconsoled
rm -rf /var/lib/xenstored/*
/etc/init.d/xend start 

-- 
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
(512) 838-9253   T/L: 678-9253
ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx

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