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Re: [Xen-users] old issue after 1024 live migrations seems to still exis

To: "Boris Quiroz" <bquiroz.work@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Florian Heigl" <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] old issue after 1024 live migrations seems to still exist.
From: "Vern Burke" <vburke@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:45:08 +0000
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I've been running my own load balancer right along on XCP and never have seen 
this.

Vern

Vern Burke, SwiftWater Telecom, http://www.swiftwatertel.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Quiroz <bquiroz.work@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:25:59 
To: Florian Heigl<florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] old issue after 1024 live migrations seems to still 
        exist.

2010/7/21 Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> last month I did some checkig of old Xen issues that I remember and
> found this one to still exist - if you do a high amount of live
> migrations at some point the xen daemon chokes and dies.
> The issue was reported by someone on the list like 4-5 years ago, but
> it seems it hasn't been fixed (not sure if anyone even replied back
> then)
> The Xen version I used to test as 3.4.0 from Oracle VM 2.2
>
> Basically You just ping-pong one domU and somewhere after 900
> migrations you first see it drop the ball a few times (vm needs to be
> restarted) and then about 100 times later one one of the hosts the xen
> daemon will crash, restart and not be able to boot vm's any more.
>
> (I waited a while to post this, but about time now I get it done)
> I'm building some power management magic witrh loadbalancing so that
> idle servers can automatically shutdown and startup, and cpu intensive
> vm's can be distributed evenly.That this bug still exists is a
> nightmare: 1024 migrations sounds a lot, but with 128 VMs on a host it
> just equals just 4 migrations per VM, right? Without the loadbalancing
> bit this wouldn't have to happen very often, but I think it's a key
> feature.
> If the RDMA live migration ever comes around, there'd be nothing against it...
>
> I've also prepared a clumsy script for the test, which can be found here:
>
> http://wartungsfenster.pastebin.org/410803
>
> I can open a bug report but i think it'd be best if someone re-test on
> Xen4 first.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
> p.s.:
> why is live migration so slow (2-3 seconds)  - without sdp i had 2-3
> gbit of bandwidth, the vm was 64MB size  (that means 1/6 second of
> transfer for the main bulk) and idle without networking!
> is it just the gratious arp?
>
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Creepy..
If this bug is still unsolved, could be XCP buggy too? Can anybody
test it? At work I don't have any testing environment =(

Cheers.

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