[CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

Wed Apr 29 20:49:12 UTC 2009
Mathew S. McCarrell <mccarrms at gmail.com>

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
mccarrms at clarkson.edu


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Maros Timko <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>
>
> 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
>> mccarrms at clarkson.edu
>>
>>
>> 2009/4/7 Maros Timko <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>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS-virt mailing list
>> CentOS-virt at centos.org
>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS-virt mailing list
> CentOS-virt at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20090429/12682d70/attachment-0003.html>