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Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 Crashes on High I/O

To: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 Crashes on High I/O
From: Henri Cook <henri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:31:16 +0100
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I might be jinxing it by saying it - but I think that line in
sysctl.conf has done it!

The system always crashed previously when i was about 60% through the
installation file setup for WinXP - i've done that again and admittedly
the installer's not working properly (gets stuck at that 60% mark and
qemu-dm on dom0 takes up 110% of cpu (4 cpus)) but importantly DOM0
HASN'T CRASHED!

I'm going to try some other operations that crash it regularly like
creating new blank images with dd, i might even re-enable swap!

Thanks! (Hopefully!)

Henri


Stefan de Konink wrote:
>> Stefan de Konink wrote:
>>     
>>>> Unless there has been a recent radical change to Xen it isn't possible
>>>>         
>>> to overcommit memory like other virtualization systems.
>>>
>>> Trust me; this is totally unrelated to Xen and NFS problems were already
>>> causing this on 3.1.
>>>
>>>
>>> Reproducable with:
>>> Loopback file on NFS. Twice the size as the host ram.
>>> Now run bonnie++. In a VM.
>>>       
>> So, what are you saying? What are you recommending? Is there a bug
>> filed somewhere that might apply here?
>>     
>
> I have mentioned it on xen-devel, and probably on bugzilla. And is one of
> the reasons to use iSCSI over NFS. Someone told me that it could be fixed
> by setting the memory overcommit for Linux to 'do not do it'. That is some
> setting in /etc/sysctl.conf
>
>
> Stefan
>
> ps. remove the annoying signature
>
>
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