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RE: [Xen-devel] OOM problems

To: John Weekes <lists.xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] OOM problems
From: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:56:28 +0000
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> I found today that tapdisk2 (at least on the latest 4.0-testing/unstable
> and latest pv_ops) is causing data corruption for Windows guests; I can
> see this by copying a few thousand files to another folder inside the
> guest, totalling a bit more than a GB, then running "fc" to check for
> differences (I tried with and without GPLPV). That's obviously a huge
> deal in production (and an even bigger deal than crashes), so in the
> short term, I may have to switch back to the uglier, crashier file:
> setup. I've been trying to find a workaround for the corruption all day
> without much luck.

That's disturbing. It might be worth trying to drop the number of VCPUs in dom0 
to 1 and then try to repro.

BTW: for production use I'd currently be strongly inclined to use the XCP 
2.6.32 kernel. 

Ian


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