[CentOS-virt] Machine freeze
Mathew S. McCarrell
mccarrms at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 22:18:32 UTC 2009
Well, I'm actually not using a PAExen kernel but I don't believe that I need
to be since I'm running the 64-bit version of CentOS. Am I mistaken in that
assumption?
Thanks,
Matt
--
Mathew S. McCarrell
Clarkson University '10
mccarrms at gmail.com
mccarrms at clarkson.edu
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plcomputers.net
> wrote:
> Just to make sure, you are using PAExen kernel on 12GB RAM Linux? 4GB is
> max for regular kernel without PAE extensions.
> Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:
> > Yeah, the Dom0 should have plenty of memory left since only 2-3 GB of
> > memory is being used out of 12 GB installed. The out of memory messages
> > were from the domU that I xm consoled into prior to shutting down that
> > particular VM because it was out of memory.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > --
> > Mathew S. McCarrell
> > Clarkson University '10
> >
> > mccarrms at gmail.com <mailto:mccarrms at gmail.com>
> > mccarrms at clarkson.edu <mailto:mccarrms at clarkson.edu>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Maros Timko <timkom at gmail.com
> > <mailto:timkom at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mathew,
> >
> > I would say no. Our system has freezed completely, it did not
> > reboot. Our issue was caused by concurrent access to scheduler
> > method that created a deadlock.
> > I can see some out of memory messages, do you still have enough
> > memory for Dom0?
> >
> > 2009/4/29 Mathew S. McCarrell <mccarrms at gmail.com
> > <mailto:mccarrms at gmail.com>>
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm wondering if it is possible that your problem is related to
> > mine. Earlier today I had to restart one of our domUs on one of
> > our systems. I used xm shutdown instead of xm destroy and then
> > did xm list to determine if the domU had shutdown or not. Upon
> > issuing xm list a second time, the entire server crashed and
> > rebooted.
> >
> > I've checked the logs and have yet to find anything. I've
> > attached a transcript of the commands as I executed them on the
> > server. The system is running CentOS 5.3 x64 w/Xen (kernel
> > 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
> >
> > --
> > Mathew S. McCarrell
> > Clarkson University '10
> >
> > mccarrms at gmail.com <mailto:mccarrms at gmail.com>
> > mccarrms at clarkson.edu <mailto:mccarrms at clarkson.edu>
> >
> >
> > 2009/4/7 Maros Timko <timkom at gmail.com <mailto:timkom at gmail.com
> >>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > thanks to all for valuable replies.
> > It seems like we identified the issue. We assured that it is
> > not HW related as it was already reproduced on different
> > machines and platforms, with different BIOS versions.
> > We are running a system performance/statistics collector
> > that executes "xentop" command on Dom0 regularly. This is
> > causing issues. If we execute:
> > xentop -b -d 0.1 > /dev/null
> > in multiple instances, it will freeze the system.
> > It was reproduced on CentOS 5.3
> > (kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5) system.
> > There is created a bug for this issue:
> > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3454
> >
> > With regards,
> >
> > Tino
> >
> >
> > 2009/4/3 Maros TIMKO <timko at pobox.sk <mailto:timko at pobox.sk
> >>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we are running CentOS 5.2 Xen virtualization system with
> > the latest CentOS packages with couple of VMs on DELL
> > PowerEdge. "Sometimes" the whole machine freezes without
> > anything in log files, anything on the console.
> > "Sometimes" really means we cannot define why or when.
> > Sometimes the machine was idle with just one VM,
> > sometimes quite busy with couple of VMs.
> >
> > Has anybody had the same experience? If yes, any hints
> > on how to resolve it or how to trace the cause?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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