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Re: [Xen-users] Xen reboots on dom-U disk stress...

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen reboots on dom-U disk stress...
From: Roland Paterson-Jones <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:46:40 +0200
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Yes, spot on, it was running out of page space in dom-0 after which Linux seemed to go on a process killing spree before turning the gun on itself and rebooting. Not very pretty.

And yes, NFS + loopback looks particularly ugly. I got it to finally run with 1G in dom-0!

We're trying GNDB, iSCSI et al... (any preferences?)

Thanks
Roland

Mark Williamson wrote:

How much memory does dom0 have? I believe NFS + loopback files is very prone to out-of-memory problems so it seems most likely your dom0 died.

If you hook up a serial line, you might be able to get some useful output before it dies.

Had you considered using something like GNBD instead of NFS + loopback? It should perform better and be less prone to OOM problems.

Cheers,
Mark

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 08:36, Roland Paterson-Jones wrote:
Hi all

I tried to run bonnie++ disk stresser in dom-U, who's disk is backed
with non-local (on nfs) loop-back file.

The machine rebooted pretty quickly.

So, how do I tell what's barfing? Is it Xen? Is it dom-0 (nfs or
loop-back)?

I looked in dom-0's /var/log/messages and didn't see any obvious record
of a dom-0 whoopsie (but is that the right place to look etc...).

Any help greatfully received.

Incidently, I ran bonnie++ successfully in dom-U with disk backed by
local (dom-0 ext3) loop-back file. This pleasantly surprised me, as
loop-back files don't have a good rep for stability under load.

Regards
Roland


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